Re: questions around install and upgrade apps on an old debian 1.3.1

2004-02-13 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-13, Andreas Janssen penned: > > I think pico belongs to pine (although it seems there are also no > installable pine packes in stable). Nano is a pico clone (at least the > package description says it is, I never used pico). Nano is part of > the base system and probably is already insta

Re: questions around install and upgrade apps on an old debian 1.3.1

2004-02-13 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Sony Lloyd (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > (1) Eventhough I have an old debian, can I pick latest releases of > apps like vi, emacs and install them right away on my old debian > system? Or they wont install since my system is too old? You need packages that were built for your system. In m

Re: questions around install and upgrade apps on an old debian 1.3.1

2004-02-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 08:19:08AM -0800, Sony Lloyd wrote: > (1) Eventhough I have an old debian, can I pick latest releases of apps > like vi, emacs and install them right away on my old debian system? > Or they wont install since my system is too old? You may be able to build them from source (

Re: questions around install and upgrade apps on an old debian 1.3.1

2004-02-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 10:40:17AM -0600, Dave's List Addy wrote: > On 2/13/04 10:19 AM, "Sony Lloyd" wrote: > > (2)Where can I find pico for debian? > > I searched through the http://packages.debian.org/stable/editors/ > > and it's not there. > > If there's no pico dor debian, what simple text ed

Re: questions around install and upgrade apps on an old debian 1.3.1

2004-02-13 Thread Dave's List Addy
On 2/13/04 10:19 AM, "Sony Lloyd" wrote: > (2)Where can I find pico for debian? > I searched through the http://packages.debian.org/stable/editors/ and it's not > there. > If there's no pico dor debian, what simple text editor similar to pico would > you recommend. Apt-get install nano -- Than