-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, ethan mindlace fremen wrote:
> debians, > I have slink running on a production server. Some of the packages are > inferior to those I need, but the packages in potato are ok. Can I > download those debs and install them without a problem? Generally It's not OK to install potato packages on slink. The majority of them will need glibc2.1, which is not fully compatible with 2.0. One thing you'll want to do is add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list if it's not already there: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists/proposed-updates/ If that doesn't get you the software you need, you can still use apt to automatically get you the source to the potato package and build it locally on your system... I believe you'll need version 0.3.11 of apt-get, which is not included with slink. I believe it will be installed from the above apt source line, though. Once you've got the right version of apt-get, add the following line to sources.list: deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free Then you can do something like: apt-get source --compile <pkgname> or apt-get source <pkgname> if you just want to download and unpack the source without automatically compiling it. Note that this does not do any dependency checking. If you don't have the necessary packages to build the software, you'll need to install them before trying to build it. Also, if you're looking for things like the gnome or KDE packages (things that are in high demand), then you're likely to be able to get them from some other source. For example, the following source line will make the KDE packages available to you: deb http://kde.tdyc.com slink kde contrib rkrusty I know there's a source line for Gnome, too, but I don't run Gnome on my slink box anymore (and it's part of potato) so I can't really help. Check www.gnome.org > Also, how do I tell the package management system that I am providing a > service by non-debian means? The equivs packages does just this. Install it and read the docs. Post if you've still got questions. noah PGP Public Key available at http://www.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html or by `finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOKNQYodCcpBjGWoFAQHqIQP9HwGZBN91rUady8EldxUGVqlgzhoc5xyL mv9Kj9br9QNm/RGC7fuJ6daST5L9Yogp+9C5cHMQgthWOaNneDg2B/Ke3VTAjrvc 7dRPa47VAWd/uZGg+Gf1Q0xalZu9jnQavHDDi0emuICDAfZ5pzjxawgp3alx83Zw OT+msIvEh1Q= =OjqX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----