Hey folks, After visiting mozilla.org recently, I got kind of keen to try firebird, so I checked apt-get.org for a backport, and found a couple of sources there; the problem is that they want to beat the crap out of my system for their dependencies:
deb http://people.debian.org/~nobse/debian/woody/backported ./ wants to remove 71 packages, including abiword, kde-base, and modconf wants to upgrade about a dozen packages, including debconf, gcc, and xfree86-common... I thought the whole point of backports was to *avoid* having to upgrade my whole system in order to install one package. Is there something I should know about what's going on here, or is this a broken backport? Both deb http://debian.netfarm.it/experimental/ woody sherpya/ and deb http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~sdier/debian updates/wup/ croak as soon as I do an aptitude (or apt-get) update, giving this error: W: Couldn't stat source package list <URL snipped> - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: You may want to update the package lists to correct these missing files So... any ideas whether there's something I should be doing to make these backports work, or whether I should be trying to compile firebird myself... And if the latter, this would be my first attempt at compiling from source: is it feasible or would I be getting into a huge complex project? Thanks for any ideas -- ,-------------------------------------------------------------------------. > -ScruLoose- | I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad < > Please do not | the dreams in which I'm dying < > reply off-list. | are the best I've ever had < > | - Tears For Fears < `-------------------------------------------------------------------------'
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