On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 04:41:15PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > > If I want to just install Exim, it is relatively easy to go to exim.org, > > get the latest stable tarball, do a configure and make and install the > > system. (This doesn't just apply to Exim, it also applies to Apache, > > PHP, bind etc.) > > Another option that may work is to grab the testing or unstable > package's source, and compile that on your stable system, to get a > package that depends on your stable system's libraries. > > Maybe try: > # nano /etc/apt/sources.list > (put a deb-src line for unstable in your sources.list) > # apt-get update > # apt-get install build-essential > # apt-get build-dep exim > # apt-get --compile source exim > # ls exim*deb > # dpkg -i <your-newly_compiled-package.deb> > > I haven't tested these instructions.
I have used essentially this method successfully several times. Although I haven't checked recently, I believe that the version of apt-get in potato does not support build-dep, but the woody version of apt-get worked fine when I installed it in a potato system several months ago. Bob Nielsen
