On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 11:37:05AM +0100, David Fokkema wrote: > I'll look at mplayer, thanks!
Christian has lots of stuff of 'dubious legality' on his site, most of which is also built for stable. Have a poke around, I'm sure there's some other stuff that will interest you. Another good place to look is http://wwww.apt-get.org/, which lists dozens of unofficial apt repositories, containing almost anything you could want. [snip pulling-packages-from-sid-onto-woody] > > Have fun! > > I'll try this out tomorrow and if it works, I will be very happy! This still won't work very neatly, since you're going to end up pulling down libc6 2.3.1 anyway. If you really want something from sid (or sarge, which would be a much better choice), you're either going to have to go the whole hog and move to them completely, or else get source there using 'apt-get source blah' and build it on your woody system using 'debuild'. 90% of it's just those two commands, and then running dpkg to install the resulting packages. > (This setup is quite elegant, but wouldn't it be nice if dselect would > also understand this?) dselect is...dselect. It does it's own thing, and doesn't know about apt at all, aside from using it to download and install packages. If you want more sophisticated control of package versions, I suggest trying aptitude. The UI seems to overwhelm people at first, but it's amazingly powerful. Plus, it can more-or-less work as a drop in replacement for apt-get, which some added features (mainly logging and removing unneeded packages automatically). $ aptitude install bleh instead of $ apt-get install bleh Also, aptitude doesn't ignore Suggests and Recommends, like apt-get does. -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ertius.org/
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