On Wednesday 11 March 2015 15:29:30 Brandon Foster wrote: > Just to jump in here- when I used Wheezy, the version of Wine was too old > and that led to a long path toward installing a newer version of Wine. At > the end of this path, I had totally blown away the version of libc that I > needed and learned a very important lesson : Don't mix unstable with > stable. Read https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian - this should help. > I suggest if you need newer software that you use an unstable version of > Debian. I believe some others in this thread have mentioned; I see this as > the Debian way.
Or backports. That works well. Not perhaps as stable as Stable, but certainly as stable as Unstable. ;-) Lisi > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 6:54 AM, D.E. Bil <kas...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 10:43:50AM +0000, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > > On 2015-03-11, D.E. Bil <kas...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 09:33:43AM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > >> On Wednesday 11 March 2015 09:09:27 D.E. Bil wrote: > > > >> > Also, installing from unofficial repositories is a bad idea. > > > >> > Especially on a stable system. > > > >> > > > >> wheezy-backports an unofficial repository? Isn't that being a littl > > > > epurist? > > > > > > I was referring to videolan one. Thanks for pointing. > > > > > > The OP wasn't clear about which instructions he was following. It turns > > > out that the instructions on the VideoLAN site point the user in the > > > direction of wheezy-backports anyway. > > > > Ah, you're right (along with Lisi). My bad. > > > > -- > > debil > > > > :wq > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > listmas...@lists.debian.org > > Archive: > > https://lists.debian.org/20150311105448.GC10262@canavanofcanmake.Noise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201503111554.34246.lisi.re...@gmail.com
