Usually, installing something from GetDeb is a bad idea, and installing
a library from them is a very very bad idea (considering that even some
Debian devs do bad stuff with library, I can't imagine how bad GetDeb
can handle them ...).
Also, upgrading a library localy (as you suggest) is also a bad idea,
because you need to check the incompatibility that could be introduced,
and maybe rebuild every packages which depend on it. Dealing with
packaging of a library is a very dangerous game for the stability of
the system. Also, don't assume the new (and probably unstable judging by
the version number) version will solve all your problems by magic
Regards,
Julien Lavergne
Le 05/02/2013 23:05, John Hupp a écrit :
On I'm running Quantal, I've been wanting and waiting to solve a
camera control problem and feel that the latest release of libgphoto2
(v2.5.1) will probably do the job.
But the version installed (the highest available) from the official
repo is 2.4.x.
I'm imagining that if I do a manual upgrade and the available repo
release catches up to 2.5.x at some point, that this will not be be a
problem. Anyone confirm?
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A related question with the GetDeb source. (BTW, GetDeb is back up
and running after being down for a LONG time.) The related camera
control software is now at version 0.5.x and has several critical
fixes, but the GetDeb available version is 0.4.x.
First of all, does it me anything for my Quantal installation that the
prescribed source apt line in the manualinstallation instructions is:
deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu precise-getdeb apps (rather than
*quantal-getdeb*)?
Next, I recall that if I manually install anapp rather than using,
say, a Synaptic source, then it will not automatically update?
If I recall incorrectly about that, then as with my library question
above, if I manually install 0.5.xand the available GetDeb version
eventually catches up and passes that, will it transition smoothly?
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