On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Angus Hedger <demide...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey there, > > Yes, as far as I know that would work, but if you are not careful you will > end up upgrading you'er whole system to sid (as someone who added unstable > sources to his Lenny install once by accident and ended up > in dependency hell with half the system upgraded and half not). > > Also sid is not recommended unless you are experienced with debian and > willing to fix it if everything breaks ;) > > So, I would recommended not changing your sources.list like that myself. > > Regards, > > Angus. > > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Tsang Kim Wai <tkwi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> Thanks for all your information. The eclipse 3.5 works OK. >> >> But if I want to try one of Mathias suggestion to upgrade my old >> eclipse 3.2 to eclipse 3.4 in the unstable release, then, in my >> understanding, I would need to edit the "/etc/apt/sources.list" file to >> change any "lenny" keywork to "sid". >> >> My sources.list file contains the following lines : >> >> deb http://ftp.hk.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free >> deb-src http://ftp.hk.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free >> >> deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free >> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free >> >> deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main >> contrib non-free >> deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main >> contrib non-free >> >> Then I think replacing all "lenny" to "sid" should change my Debian >> system from stable to un-stable release so that I could upgrade eclipse 3.2 >> to eclipse 3.4 by running just "apt-get install eclipse". Is that the case ? >> >> >> Alternatively, if I don't change my Debian system to un-stable >> release through editing "sources.list", could I still upgrade my old eclipse >> 3.2 to eclipse 3.4 in other way ? >> >> Any comment / suggestion. >> >> Regards >> Lawrence >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Mathias <m9...@abc.se> wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 10 Jan 2010, Tsang Kim Wai wrote: >>> >>> Hi Nick Douma, Liam O'Toole and Mathias, >>>> >>>> It works by simply extracting the downloaded Eclipse 3.5 binary >>>> file >>>> into /usr/local/eclipse-3.5/ directory and then run the eclipse script >>>> under >>>> that directory. But I think, the eclipse 3.5 simple installation may >>>> depend >>>> on some configurations of my old eclipse 3.2 installation. That is, I >>>> may >>>> not un-install eclipse 3.2 while expecting eclipse 3.5 would work >>>> properly. >>>> Is that the case ? >>>> >>>> Anyway, thank you for all your suggestions. >>>> >>>> Yeah, seeing how the apt system on debian mostly works to maintain and >>> upgrade the packages to newer version, the 3.4 that is in unstable would >>> replace the 3.2 one, unless some changes were made to the newer package. >>> >>> As mentioned earlier, creating a symlink in /usr/bin seems like a good >>> idea too. >>> >>> Mat >> >> >> > Hi there, yes, change your source list to Sid/unstable will help you to install 3.4 in Debian way. A few suggestions though: 1: backup you current source list; 2: comment out security and volatile lines for Sid; 3: just upgrade eclipse and switch back to Lenny if you prefer staying in the stable/boring land and do a source list update immediately. -- Thanks and regards, Zhan
