On 06/14/2011 11:37 AM, Noah Duffy wrote:
> I've been running Debian Squeeze for a little while now. I was using
> Ubuntu before, so I'm really used to being able to keep certain
> software up-to-date using their PPA system. I'm loving Debian (even
> though I've had to make a few tweaks for it to
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2011-06-14 21:01 +0200, Noah Duffy wrote:
>
>>
>> I read the guide you posted, and it seems simple enough. I understand
>> it as this:
>>
>> Let's say I want to "backport" Banshee from Wheezy because it's
>> version 2.0.1, I could add the
On 2011-06-14 21:01 +0200, Noah Duffy wrote:
>
> I read the guide you posted, and it seems simple enough. I understand
> it as this:
>
> Let's say I want to "backport" Banshee from Wheezy because it's
> version 2.0.1, I could add the source repository for wheezy to my
> sources, and build that pa
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Jimmy Wu wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 00:35, Camaleón wrote:
>> On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:37:28 -0500, Noah Duffy wrote:
>>
>> (...)
>>
>>> Is it recommended to install packages from testing? I know this often
>>> also updates dependencies that other software m
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 00:35, Camaleón wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:37:28 -0500, Noah Duffy wrote:
>
> (...)
>
>> Is it recommended to install packages from testing? I know this often
>> also updates dependencies that other software may use causing the system
>> to potentially not be as secur
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:37:28 -0500, Noah Duffy wrote:
(...)
> Is it recommended to install packages from testing? I know this often
> also updates dependencies that other software may use causing the system
> to potentially not be as secure or stable.
I'd say that would depend on the package
On Tue, 04 Mar 2003 18:04:53 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> When I run "apt-get update", Debian logs on to the updates ftp site
> (such as ftp.debian.org) and downloads an entirely new list of
> packages which overrides the older list. Thus if I install Debian from
> CDs and update, I will no lo
On 31-Jan-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi!
> I've got a notebook presario 1245, and a pcmcia net adapter. I
> need to update the pcmcia modules (I guess, as i had the same problem with
> suse 7) in order to make work the net adapter. I guess that if the updates
> of pcmcia stuff was avail
>> What I want is a way comparing what is currently installed (dpkg -l) with
>> what is available on my local mirror.
>
>I believe the package you are looking for is dftp (not to be confused
>with dpkg-ftp).
Hmm, I think you're correct. It seems pretty bare bones but it will
hopefully do the tr
On Jan 16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Shand) wrote:
> What I want is a way comparing what is currently installed (dpkg -l) with
> what is available on my local mirror.
>
I believe the package you are looking for is dftp (not to be confused
with dpkg-ftp).
Steve Greenland
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