-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 28 June 2003 10:50 am, Felix Natter wrote: > hi, > > the dosemu packages in woody says that there is no freedos-package and > that I should get the freedos binary package from www.dosemu.org > (and that I should read README.Debian for instructions on how to > install it) > However, these instructions don't work with dosemu-freedos-b8p-bin.tgz > (I get something like "no os found"). > > So I tried the dosemu-freedos package from testing mixed with the > dosemu-package from stable. This doesn't work ("bad or missing command > interpreter" (command.com)). > > Now it looks like I have to use the dosemu and dosemu-freedos packages > from testing or sid (it works at a friend's who runs sid). > How can I do this if dosemu depends on glibc-2.3.1-1?: > > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of dosemu: > dosemu depends on libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1); however: > Version of libc6 on system is 2.2.5-6. > > Is there a way (apt-pinning?) that I can use these packages > without compromising my woody system? > > thanks!, > > -- > Felix Natter > Linux from *scratch* (www.gnu.org/software/emacs)
You can try to build the packages from source. Setup apt-pinning (/etc/apt/preferences) file. Use 'apt-get source -b <package name> -t <Debian Version, Testing or Unstable>'. If there are not a lot of depends it could work without breaking woody. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+/hfWk7rtxKWZzGsRAgceAJ9zZ/iv6a5+b/X5shoBZKfBXE9lxgCgr/M+ PLzzeqyBTJWAZfJX378BNFE= =XjND -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]