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Sometimes software releasers (a new word?) will have debs built along w/ rpms.
In fact, there are people within the debian community that make packages
available for more recent software releases. I know that kde is this way. 3.0
is listed in testing or unstable for debian, but the kde folks created 3.0
debs for woody specifically, and all I had to do was add the kde-woody url to
my sources.list and apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade. Poof! I have kde
3.0...Mozilla 1.4 is available in unstable...you could read the apt- howto to
figure out how to get stable and unstable to play well together, I guess...
HTH
Russell
On Thursday 10 July 2003 07:25 am, Mike Manchester wrote:
> I was wondering what all the Debian users out there do about installing
> current software.
>
> For example: I would like the latest version of webmin, mozilla and
> OpenOffice. The problem is that all the packages I find for Debian are
> not the current releases. So I was wondering. Do I just uninstall the
> packages and the install using the tar files? Or do I create tar files
> with alien and install using dpkg -i ?
>
> What do most of you do? The webmin I found for Debian is like 9 release
> behind the current development version. I did try to create a deb
> package from the webmin tar file and then installed the dep package over
> the webmin package that was installed. I didn't get any errors but now
> webmin is not working. Should I have uninstalled the version on my
> system and then installed the deb package or just give up on the dep
> package thing and use tar?
>
> Thanks for any help on this.
> Mike M.
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