On 2008-03-31 21:15 +0200, andy wrote: > I am wanting to install Homebank on an Etch machine. Trouble is, it > looks like it is only available for testing/Lenny and Sid. > > http://homebank.free.fr/index.php?id=20 > http://packages.qa.debian.org/h/homebank.html > > Is it best to simply give this a miss, or to download a tar ball and > convert it to a deb package via (is it) alien? Or, can one install a > testing package on a stable machine?
Only if you are willing to upgrade a lot of other packages as well, namely the libraries that the package depends on. This is probably not what you want, so a better way is to build homebank from source. You can either try to backport the Debian package (if you're lucky, a simple rebuild on Etch will do the trick) or use upstream's tarball. The latter has the advantage that it's a newer version than the Debian package, but you may have more problems finding out the build dependencies; for Debian sources, `dpkg-buildpackage' will tell you what is needed. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
