On 03/11/2015 05:54 AM, D.E. Bil wrote:
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 09:33:43AM +, 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
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
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.
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 10:43:50AM +, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On 2015-03-11, D.E. Bil wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 09:33:43AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> >> On Wednesday 11 March 2015 09:09:27 D.E. Bil wrote:
> >> > Also, installing from unofficial repositories is a bad idea.
> >> > Especia
On 2015-03-11, D.E. Bil wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 09:33:43AM +, 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
On 2015-03-11, James wrote:
>
>
> On 03/10/2015 08:23 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote:
>> On 2015-03-10, James wrote:
>>> I installed Debian7 but it has old software.
>>> I manually installed LibreOffice-4.4 (LibreOffice-3 was the default).
>>>
>>> I also want to upgrade VNC because the default is v2.0.3
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 09:33:43AM +, 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
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?
Lisi
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On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 07:36:42PM -0400, James wrote:
> I installed Debian7 but it has old software.
It's the price of stability[1]. You might want to consider other
distributions if you really need fresher software. Another option
would be to run a mixed testing/unstable system[2], however if yo
On 03/10/2015 08:23 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote:
On 2015-03-10, James wrote:
I installed Debian7 but it has old software.
I manually installed LibreOffice-4.4 (LibreOffice-3 was the default).
I also want to upgrade VNC because the default is v2.0.3 and the current
version is 2.2.0.
I followed the
On 2015-03-10, James wrote:
> I installed Debian7 but it has old software.
> I manually installed LibreOffice-4.4 (LibreOffice-3 was the default).
>
> I also want to upgrade VNC because the default is v2.0.3 and the current
> version is 2.2.0.
> I followed the instructions on the videolan.org web
On Tuesday 10 March 2015 23:36:42 James wrote:
> I installed Debian7 but it has old software.
> I manually installed LibreOffice-4.4 (LibreOffice-3 was the default).
>
> I also want to upgrade VNC because the default is v2.0.3 and the current
> version is 2.2.0.
> I followed the instructions on the
Le 22.02.2014 21:58, Ralf Mardorf a écrit :
On Sat, 2014-02-22 at 21:13 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org
wrote:
Le 21.02.2014 21:07, Ralf Mardorf a écrit :
> If you only need to build a package for yourself, it must be
> something
> similar to that, you should try
>
> # apt-get source FOO
On Sat, 2014-02-22 at 21:13 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
>
> Le 21.02.2014 21:07, Ralf Mardorf a écrit :
> > If you only need to build a package for yourself, it must be
> > something
> > similar to that, you should try
> >
> > # apt-get source FOO_BAR
> > # apt-get build-dep FOO_B
Le 21.02.2014 21:07, Ralf Mardorf a écrit :
If you only need to build a package for yourself, it must be
something
similar to that, you should try
# apt-get source FOO_BAR
# apt-get build-dep FOO_BAR
# mv -vi FOO_BAR-xy/ FOO_BAR-pq
# wget FOO_BAR'S_NEW_SOURCE_FROM_UPSTREAM
# tar xvjf FOO_BAR-
If you only need to build a package for yourself, it must be something
similar to that, you should try
# apt-get source FOO_BAR
# apt-get build-dep FOO_BAR
# mv -vi FOO_BAR-xy/ FOO_BAR-pq
# wget FOO_BAR'S_NEW_SOURCE_FROM_UPSTREAM
# tar xvjf FOO_BAR-...
# cd FOO_BAR-...
# gedit debian/changelog
# g
On Jo, 20 feb 14, 20:01:04, Hans wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> just a simple question: Does debian accept suggestions of new packages,
> although they are old and orphaned by the original devolper?
>It depends a lot on the package. There are packages that haven't seen
>updates for a few releases and
Hi,
Dňa Thu, 20 Feb 2014 23:24:02 +0200 Andrei POPESCU
napísal:
> On Jo, 20 feb 14, 20:01:04, Hans wrote:
> > just a simple question: Does debian accept suggestions of new
> > packages, although they are old and orphaned by the original
> > devolper?
>
> It depends a lot on the package.
In
I've done just that, resurrected Xdx which had last been in Squeeze and
was orphaned and dropped from Wheezy. The original author gave his
blessing for me to take over maintanence in mid-January, I released a
stable verion three weeks ago, and just this week it appeared in Sid as
a "new" package.
On Jo, 20 feb 14, 20:01:04, Hans wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> just a simple question: Does debian accept suggestions of new packages,
> although they are old and orphaned by the original devolper?
It depends a lot on the package. There are packages that haven't seen
updates for a few releases and ar
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 08:44:00 +
"Lynn Kilroy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Someone mentioned that newbies should go right to unstable, because newbies
> shouldn't have to play with old software.
I don't remember anyone suggesting that here, quite the contrary.
> Hon, I would go with stable
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