Re: mixture of potato & testing

2001-10-01 Thread David
> > I'd like a Debian guru to tell me and others why mixing distros is so > > dangerous. Is it just because of the changes in dependances? Am I > > safe by being careful of deps myself? > > Debian is (in large part) about resolving dependencies. By mixing > distros, you're utterly fuxnoring the

Re: mixture of potato & testing

2001-10-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 10:19:23PM +0100, David ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thursday 27 September 2001 4:41 pm, Vittorio wrote: > > I have an almost pure potato 2.2r3 installation (only 2.4.9 kernel is a > > stranger!) and now I need to download gimp 1.2 which is part of woody & > > testing. Is

Re: mixture of potato & testing

2001-09-28 Thread David
On Thursday 27 September 2001 4:41 pm, Vittorio wrote: > I have an almost pure potato 2.2r3 installation (only 2.4.9 kernel is a > stranger!) and now I need to download gimp 1.2 which is part of woody & > testing. Issuing 'apt-get install gimp1.2' from woody I see that it > requires to download som

Re: mixture of potato & testing

2001-09-28 Thread Johnny Ernst Nielsen
The short question is: will I succeed in installing/upgrading a Woody program on Potato, or will it give me troubles? Answer: I did this with SANE. It worked. Just include the proper Woody sources line in your sourses.list, apt-get update, apt-get install I would imagine that the Debian dep

Re: mixture of potato & testing

2001-09-27 Thread Nigel Pauli
On Thursday 27 September 2001 16:41, Vittorio wrote: > I have an almost pure potato 2.2r3 installation (only 2.4.9 kernel is a > stranger!) and now I need to download gimp 1.2 which is part of woody & > testing. Issuing 'apt-get install gimp1.2' from woody I see that it > requires to download some

Re: mixture of potato & testing

2001-09-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 03:41:20PM +, Vittorio ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have an almost pure potato 2.2r3 installation (only 2.4.9 kernel is > a stranger!) and now I need to download gimp 1.2 which is part of > woody & testing. Issuing 'apt-get install gimp1.2' from woody I see > that it

Re: mixture of potato & testing

2001-09-27 Thread Harvey Kelly
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 03:41:20PM +, Vittorio wrote: > I have an almost pure potato 2.2r3 installation (only 2.4.9 kernel is a > stranger!) and now I need to download gimp 1.2 which is part of woody & > testing. > Issuing 'apt-get install gimp1.2' from woody I see that it requires to > dow

mixture of potato & testing

2001-09-27 Thread Vittorio
I have an almost pure potato 2.2r3 installation (only 2.4.9 kernel is a stranger!) and now I need to download gimp 1.2 which is part of woody & testing. Issuing 'apt-get install gimp1.2' from woody I see that it requires to download some more new-updated libs and many files for xfree86 4.1.