On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 08:44:19PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:18:41PM +0200, Jeroen Valcke wrote: > > Weird, Licq is available as a package in unstable and in stable, but not > > in testing. My question what's the best thing to do to install this on a > > Debian testing system? Is it possible to select some package from > > unstable and install them on a testing machine? > > You have two choices here: you can manually download the unstable > package and install it (and all its' dependencies) using dpkg or you > can use a new feature of apt, called 'pinning'. Basically, it lets > you use two different distributions
Ok, I downloaded the deb for real. Do you have a reference to explanation on this 'pinning' thing. > > I once installed realplayer but I never figured out how to install it > > system-wide? Somebody who has tips on installing this piece of software. > > Really? The realplayer package installed it just fine for me. > Available to all users, as far as I can tell. > Could you elaborate? Hmm, indeed. I did the install with the deb file for unstable. Works out fine. System-wide install like you mentioned. Although realplayer is installed now. I can't get it to play a stream. I suspect it has something to do with masquerading. I'm behind a firewall. Is there something special I should enable on the firewall? Thanks regards, -Jeroen Valcke- -- Jeroen Valcke jeroen@valcke.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
