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 more new-updated libs and many files for xfree86 > 4.1. > > Before going on with this 'dirty' action I'd like to have your most revered > advice.
I'd be interested in people's response to this as well and, in fact, was just about to send a similar plea for advice to the list myself. At the moment I'm pure potato 2.2r3 and I have the testing lines in sources.list commented out. Now, though, I want to install phpmyadmin 2.2.0-1. Will this, my first use of a package from testing, be simply a matter of uncommenting the testing lines in sources.list, doing apt-get update, installing the package and then living happily ever afterwards; or is it much more likely to be the opening of a can of worms involving an exponential steepening of the learning curve, etc. Thanks, in advance, for your thoughts, Nigel. -- Nigel Pauli - I.T. Manager St. John's School, Northwood, U.K. http://www.st-johns.org.uk/
