"Armando L. Caro Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am new to Debian. I am now running slink (stable)... are you
> running potato (frozen)? Should I upgrade to that? b/c when I do
> 'apt-get upgrade'... what i currently have is reported the most up
> to date versions.
You can upgrade all the way to potato, and since it's now frozen and
moving toward stable, you'll probably want to soon anyway, but I doubt
that you have to if you don't want to.
If you don't want to upgrade all the way, you may be able to just
upgrade some of the stuff you need, and all the stuff those bits
depend on, using apt. To do that, you need to add some potato lines
to /etc/apt/sources.list like this:
deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free
deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free
and then you can run (as root)
apt-get update
and update the packages you need:
apt-get install guile1.3 gcc libgtk1.2-dev ...
etc.
These commands will download and install the latest versions of these
packages and anything else they depend on.
(Also, as an aside for *everyone* using Debian, make sure when you use
dselect rather than apt from the command line (and you should use
dselect for full upgrades -- i.e. when you want to upgrade everything
to the latest versions), that you select "apt" as the dselect back
end. It's stunningly better than the alternatives.
Also, for those that hate dslect, you should just try to get over
that. I hated it too, and then finally, I submitted, learned its
keys, and though I still think it's very awkward in places, and has a
too-steep learning curve, it is an *excellent* tool. Just don't
press any keys until you know *exactly* what they do :>
FWIW)
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