--- Joe Rhett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, this is probably a bonehead user question but > I'm just getting used > to Debian. Not normally a bonehead :-( > > I would like/prefer to run 'stable'. Debian/Woody > installed on my laptop > perfectly fine. Wireless/WEP, IPsec, X all up and > running SWEET. > > Unfortunately, the stable browser is 'zilla 1.0 :-( > > I would like to run a modern Mozilla, without > updating the whole universe > if possible. I've done the documented steps for > accessing unstable > (testing doesn't have anything newer) and rerun > apt-get update and it sees > the packages just fine. But when I try to upgrade > mozilla it wants to > install 293 packages ... uh, no. > > The man page indicates that apt-get upgrade doesn't > handle single package > upgrades -- to use dselect. Well dselect gets way > way lost inside a tree I > can't find my way out of. I spent an hour trying to > make dselect happy, > and I'm still lost. > > So finally I just went to the package directly using > mozilla. It tells me > of the dependancies, but allows me to download > directly. But then kpackage > barfs because it wants all the dependancies. > > Am I really supposed to spend all night long > manually downloading all the > dependancies? Ugh. > > So I am writing here in hopes I'm overlooking > something. Please, tell me > how one can update just one package and its > dependancies, without doing a > full-on conversion from Woody to unstable? If a > single package forces one > to upgrade completely to unstable branch, then the > entire purpose of the > trees appears to be a moot point. > > Now -- skip the download and compile yourself. No > fun. And skip the > 'download the 'zilla net installer and use that' -- > because I already have. > But I want to know how to solve this problem and > stay within the Debian > framework. >
Joe, If you want to upgrade just Mozilla in Woody rather than the whole host of things that Sid suggests you're going need to look at backports, take a look at www.apt-get.org but beware that using a range of backported products together can seriously mess your system up... If you think you might want to upgrade other packages in the future - and why not, Woody is *old* and most people happily run Sid on their desktops - you should look at dist-upgrading to Sid HTH. > -- > Joe Rhett > Chief Geek > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Isite Services, Inc. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ===== ----------------------- Simon Tod [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://mail.messenger.yahoo.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
