On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 12:08:24AM -0400, Barry Mathieu wrote: > I probably committed a major Debian Faux-Pax by editing my source file > to temporarily point at the testing release to allow me to install > plucker. That is, with testing (rather than stable) in my source file > I, > > apt-get update > apt-get install plucker >
Some binaries from testing can be installed as you have found out. You probably already know this but you should point your sources.list back to stable and rerun apt-get update before installing anything else. In the future you might if you want to try installing a package off testing or unstable you could down-load the package and run - # dpkg -i package.deb to install. > To my surprise, no conflicts were indicated and plucker installed. > > I've even plucked a few sites, and wow, this is a useful package for me. > > Unfortunately, no images are being displayed on my pilot. I believe this > may be due to the older version of netpbm in potato. Also, Zlib > compression is missing from the viewer. > > I would like to obtain the functionality of viewing images on my pilot > and Zlib compression. I'm hoping someone can offer a suggestion on how > to overcome this dilemma. > > I've considered attempting to compile from sources. However, I am > definitely a bit of a neophyte and it takes me so long to get things > working, I worry about breaking them. For instance, I definitely fear > screwing up the installed package list. I really haven't used plucker so I can't advise you as to what you need to make it work but - http://packages.debian.org/testing/otherosfs/plucker.html shows what packages are needed. If you need updated packages off of testing or unstable you can often compile the source by pointing your src lines in /etc/apt/sources.list to testing or unstable then run - # apt-get update # apt-get -b source package_name This will build a .deb from source. hth, kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke
