On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 12:49:57PM -0500, Anthony DiSante wrote: > Hello, > > I just installed Debian stable the other day, and with the help of > some of the folks on the list here, got it upgraded (apt-get > dist-upgrade) to the sarge "testing" packages. But some things, > like mozilla, and the alsa audio drivers, and gaim, and xfree86, > either didn't get installed, or didn't get upgraded to the current > versions. > > I found apt-get.org, and see that there are lots of debian packages > available from various sources there. But some things, for example > mozilla, are available right from the mozilla site as binaries that > have always "just worked" in my experience. Is it bad to install > mozilla that way, completely bypassing the apt system? > > Likewise for gaim, and the alsa audio drivers, I've never had any > trouble building them from source on my Slackware system, so I'd > guess they'd build fine on my Debian system. And I want to go to > XFree86 4.3, but dist-upgrade only gave me 4.2. > > I definitely want to have the latest versions for certain packages, > like these ones I've mentioned. But if I install them manually, is > that a problem? Isn't my whole apt system going to then be > out-of-sync with what's actually installed on my box? Or is there > a way to make apt give me the very latest versions (is that what > "unstable" is)?
Yes. I think unstable is what you want. see releases guide http://www.debian.org/releases/index.en.html to know what things you can get is http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages apt has -t option, with which you can specify the target-release you like to get. details on this, see apt-get(8) but there is some things that you can't get with apt-system. I don't know how do-it-yourself package affect debian-system. I like to know that, too. thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
