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 some more new-updated libs and many files for xfree86 > 4.1.
I'm running a mix of Potato and Woody including Gimp 1.2.1 and all is well. Kernel 2.4.9 and X4.1 Personally I'd upgrade X first and be sure that is all sorted first then install Gimp. Take things one step at a time and you will at least know at what stage things went wrong should they do so. That said I generally grab source code and compile it myself after manually checking the Build depends in ..debian/control. So far so good. 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? Cheers, David.
