On Monday 05 June 2006 09:49, Chris Walters wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I was wondering if anyone has had any luck in mixing elements of etch > with a sarge installation. I am reluctant to do this, because I tried > twice to install etch and it failed to work, and when I tried to do what > I just said, it broke my system. > > What I want to do is upgrade Mozilla, Thunderbird, and Firefox to more > recent versions than are in the official sarge distribution (and maybe a > few other things, like OpenOffice). > > Am I barking up the wrong tree here? Should I maybe create an etch net > install floppy and do a clean install of etch rather than trying to mix > the two?
Usually the best way to approach this is to use stable (sarge) and for any software you need newer versions of, use a backported version either from backports.org or built yourself from the testing (etch) or unstable (sid) sources. I believe most of the software you mentioned (Firefox, etc) are supported by backports.org already. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2
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