Chris Vine <ch...@cvine.freeserve.co.uk> writes: > On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 13:46:07 +0200 > Federico Beffa <be...@ieee.org> wrote: > [snip] >> Your guess is correct: The distribution that I'm using (Debian wheezy) >> ships 2.0.5 as the newest guile version and I need to keep it to >> satisfy dependencies of other distribution supplied packages. >> However, I would like to experiment with a newer version of guile. I >> will then follow your advice and install it in a different directory. > > Surely dependency requirements would be satisfied by a later library > version with the same so name? I should read up the documentation on > dpkg. >
As far as I inderstand the Debian package manager mantains a package database. This is the place where it looks for installed packages. So, if I have a newer version of guile which is not installed through the package manager, the package manager will not know about it. Regards, Fede
