on Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 05:14:24PM -0700, Rick Commo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > After reading Karsten Self's comments on galeon I thought I would give it a > try since Netscape 4.75 is old and *not* impressive. > > Downloaded galeon-0.12.tar.gz and unzipped and untarred it. When I ran > "configure" it came up with an error saying that I had glib 1.2.7 and needed > glib 1.2.8.
I'd suggest the 0.11.5 release as I'm having good results with it and am
seeing problems cropping up on the Galeon list with 0.12. Not following
things too closely myself, but you're warned.
I really can't say how much Galeon rocks. Convinced a British friend of
mine, who's been shilling for Mozilla for the past year, to give it a
whirl. He's done a very public about-face, to which I can only say I'm
proud ;-)
http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=5737
> So I changed my sources.list to point to testing instead of stable;
> did "apt-get" upgrade and watched a whole lot of updating; and finally
> did "apt-get install libglib1.2". It wanted to change a raft of
> stuff!
I'd really encourage people *not* to go mucking with switching between
Debian dists, unless they plan on committing to the transition. I'm
running (on two separate systems) Sid and Woody respectively, and am
still chewing hard on dumping OpenBSD on the firewall for Potato (long
story, but basically: less intrinsic security, far superior update
mechanism, more flexibility, and a standard admin environment for yours
frazzled truly).
If you're going to experiment with out-of-dist software, I'd suggest
grabbing binaries or sources from the upstream source itself, and
discovering what it is that Debian's taking care of for you. If you're
a Stable desktop user with 6-12 months' experience, and are comfortable
with Debian, the step up to testing or unstable is generally
surviveable. Though I *was* hearing some war stories from a few folks
at today's Linux10 party.
> I got nervous at this point and decided to chew on things a bit since I
> don't know the ramifications of all these changes in what is basically
> potato r3. So I changed sources.list to point back to stable and did an
> "apt-get update".
>
> Here are the questions
> (1) Since my sources.list points back to stable and I've done an -apt-get
> update", I assume that I am good to go again. That is to say, my cache is
> now cool with stable.
I think so.
Check your package lists. Location changes over dists, could be
/var/lib/apt/lists (unstable) or /var/state/apt/lists (testing) (If you
can't find either location, run 'locate lists' and scan the output).
These should include only 'stable' lists if you're correctly pointing
to Woody. If you've managed to update any packages, I'm not sure what
the protocol is.
> (2) However, when I do get adventurous, I assume I change "stable" to
> "testing" in sources.list and then do "apt-get update" and "apt-get
> dist-upgrade" and some time later I am running Woody. Have I missed a
> step here?
Looks about right.
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