Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 02:03:09PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > >>kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: >> >>>H.S. wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Hi, >>>> >>>>So, while Testing is going through this whole lot of transition to newer >>>>packages (KDE 3.4 and Gcc 4.0), I am holding off dist-upgrading it. But >>>>yesterday, to experiment to see what happens to held back packages if >>>>k3b is not present, I removed k3b. Saw nothing much has changed so did >>>>not upgrade at all. So, to get k3b back, what do I do? I know it is not >>>>there anymore in Testing. Where can I find it's last deb package for >>>>Testing? >>>> >>>>->HS >>>> >>>> >>> >>>Just briefly change your sources to unstable, install k3b, change the >>>sources back to testing after that. This is a workaround and is not the >>>most elegant solution out there. You might also take a look at >>>apt-pinning - which has its own advantages and disadvantages... >>> >>>bye >>>raju >>> >>> >> >>I guess installing k3b from unstable is not going to work. It needs a >>whole lot of other packages from unstable to do this. I used "apt-get -t >>unstable -s install k3b" to try this out. >> >>So, I guess the safest bet would be to get the k3b.deb package that was >>in testing from someplace. >> > > > You can try looking at snapshot.debian.net. You can also grab the > sources (the .dsc, .diff.gz and .orig.tar.gz) from Sid and backport > them. You can use by Debian package customization HOWTO as a guide: > http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto/howtos/debcustomize > > Backporting is basically a recompile from a newer release to an older > release. This occasionally necessitates some tweaking of > build-dependencies. However, this is normally not necassry, unless > somehting like a C++ ABI trasition has occurred. > > -Roberto >
Yup, that is what my brother told me too. I have now k3b v. 0.11.20-2 installed. regards, ->HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
