On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Kelly Clowers <kelly.clow...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 04:59, John Culleton <j...@wexfordpress.com> > wrote: > > I want to upgrade to latest Inkscape 0.48.0 To that end I did a net > > install of Debian and ended up with Lenny and Inkscape 0.46. Two > > questions: > > 1. What release of Debian is likely to get Inkscape 0.48 first? > > Unstable has 0.47, experimental has 0.48 > > Backports seems not to have it. > > > 2. How do I upgrade to that release? > > Change /etc/apt/sources.list so that it says unstable instead of > stable or lenny, > then do "aptitude update; aptitude dist-upgrade". Then add lines that > point to > experimental (add to, not replace; experimental only has a few packages of > it's > own, the rest must come from unstable). Then you need to explicitly select > inkscape 0.48 (I recommend aptitude in interactive mode), as a regular > aptitude upgrade will not pull in experimental packages. > > Or you might want to upgrade to testing first, then to > unstable/experimental. In > any case, unstable is pretty calm right now, due to the freeze, so there > shouldn't be too many issues. > > Cheers, > Kelly Clowers > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/aanlktimbbgzumnkposquld_8abqq7gfjjazyjodwq...@mail.gmail.com > > You shouldn't do it like this. If you do, you very well may end up with an unstable system. Upgrade to testing by the instructions I gave you, and then backport this package to testing from experimental. a) put experimental deb-src only in your sources.list b) update aptitude c) apt-get build-dep inkscape (or whatever the package name is) d) apt-get -b source inkscape e) install resulting inkscape deb Also, do this: echo 'APT::Default-Release "testing";' >> /etc/apt.conf ciao James S.
