On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 05:12:39PM -0700, Kris Huber wrote: > I'm wondering if a 'cproto' debian package is available for the Linux 2.2 > kernel. I see one under 'unstable' but from what I read, application > binaries need to be compiled for the kernel you are running.
No, there's no kernel dependency except for a small number of specialized programs, which is unlikely to include cproto. In fact, the cproto package from unstable should install fine on a stable system. > Cproto has been around for several years; I'm surprised it's not there > (so I suspect I'm wrong). Judging from the changelog, it made it into unstable shortly before potato was released, but too late to make it into that release. > More generally, when binaries of a Debian package aren't available for my > kernel, can I put another distribution (e.g., unstable) in my sources.list > temporarily and do an 'apt-get sources' to compile an application for my > kernel? Don't worry about the kernel, but you might need it compiled against the libraries you currently have installed. Yes. You can just change over the deb-src lines rather than having to change everything. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]