Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 04:22:08PM -0700, Willie Wonka wrote: > > Hi all; > > I have a few quick questions about how to upgrade ONLY certain apps/pkgs... > > Then get the source of newer version and compile it yourself under > stable environment. > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-system.en.html#s-sourcebuild > > This will avoid all library issues. You may need to patch this source > or upgrade other programs... > > You can get good binary and example source from http://www.backports.org/ > > This is not trivial thing. > > Pinning works nicely on simple bash shell and doc packages but I am not > so much fan when it coms to binary C programs. >
Thank you for that info; I will certainly revisit it when I'm feeling bolder once again ;-) I'm _not_ a programmer/script writer in any sense, and quite new to linux - and many gaps in knowledge need fulfilling before I can realistically tackle that kind of a task. Maybe I can get a 'testbed' box up and running for experimentation on just these sorts of things...something goes awry - ReImage it ;-) Regards __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
