On Monday 30 August 2010 09:13:28 James Stuckey wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Kelly Clowers <kelly.clow...@gmail.com>wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 04:59, John Culleton > > <j...@wexfordpress.com> > > > > wrote: > > > I want to upgrade to latest Inkscape 0.48.0 To that end I did a > > > net install of Debian and ended up with Lenny and Inkscape > > > 0.46. Two questions: > > > 1. What release of Debian is likely to get Inkscape 0.48 first? > > > > Unstable has 0.47, experimental has 0.48 > > > > Backports seems not to have it. > > > > > 2. How do I upgrade to that release? > > > > Change /etc/apt/sources.list so that it says unstable instead of > > stable or lenny, > > then do "aptitude update; aptitude dist-upgrade". Then add lines > > that point to > > experimental (add to, not replace; experimental only has a few > > packages of it's > > own, the rest must come from unstable). Then you need to > > explicitly select inkscape 0.48 (I recommend aptitude in > > interactive mode), as a regular aptitude upgrade will not pull in > > experimental packages. > > > > Or you might want to upgrade to testing first, then to > > unstable/experimental. In > > any case, unstable is pretty calm right now, due to the freeze, > > so there shouldn't be too many issues. > > > > Cheers, > > Kelly Clowers > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > listmas...@lists.debian.org > > Archive: > > http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTimBbgZuMNKPOSqULd_8aBQQ7gFJJaZYJoDW > >q...@mail.gmail.com > > You shouldn't do it like this. If you do, you very well may end up > with an unstable system. Upgrade to testing by the instructions I > gave you, and then backport this package to testing from > experimental. > > a) put experimental deb-src only in your sources.list > b) update aptitude > c) apt-get build-dep inkscape (or whatever the package name is) > d) apt-get -b source inkscape > e) install resulting inkscape deb > > Also, do this: echo 'APT::Default-Release "testing";' >> > /etc/apt.conf > > ciao > James S.
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