On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 04:14:48PM -0500, Steve Kleene wrote: > > What I did was to put in alsa-base 1.0.14-rc1 from Debian experimental and > alsa-lib and alsa-driver 1.0.14rc2 from source. I made deb files of these > two but couldn't install them that way because of conflicts. I tried > checkinstall from unstable as well as dpkg -i. > > I'm a little worried what sort of mess I'll have when it comes time to > upgrade any of the debian packages involved. dpkg still shows libasound2 > 1.0.13-1 installed, but many of those files were overwritten by the install > of alsa-lib from source. alsa-driver replaced files from the package > linux-image-2.6.18-3-686 and a couple of others. I did save archives of the > original files but don't know if that will be enough. > > Am I likely to have a mess on my hands upgrading any of the packages > involved? Thanks. > That depends. If you provide the exact error messages from dpkg when you try to install with 'dpkg -i', then we can probably suggest how to rebuild your .debs so that they will work with your setup.
Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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