On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 10:43:56AM +0300, Amit Aronovitch wrote: > Avraham Rosenberg wrote: > > > > Hmm... Seems that the amd64 version is only available for unstable > (which is the flavor I use)... > > http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=octave2.9&searchon=names&subword=1&version=all&release=all > > If you really need it, you could add unstable to your sources.list > (just make sure to put > Apt::Default-Release "testing"; > in your apt.conf if you wish to avoid a wholesale upgrade to sid). > But, of course, let's not put the cart before the horse - we must have a > working compilation first... > > Amit Hi Amit, 1-I do have the unstable sources. But they only allow me to install specific programs, using the -t unstable option, as my preferences file only lists stable and testing packages. For the time being I won't install the unstable octave, as it is a big package with lots of dependencies and would practically mean going over to unstable, which I am still reluctant to do. The big advantage of a build from sources is that it erects a separate subsystem in /usr/local, which is easily thrown away if it affects too much the stability of the syatem. 2-Another possibility which does not take much more disk space (and with nowadays' big disks, who cares anyway ?), is to install a separate unstable distribution, just for that. I tried to do it, but, during the bootstrap of the 32-bit chroot system, I received a "cannot download the base configuration package" message. I retried a couple of days later with the same result. Did you have a similar experience? I used the same mirror (http://debian.inode.at/debian-amd64/debianat) which allowed me to build the first 64-bit system. 3-I did not know about the possibility of tweaking the apt.conf that you mentioned. Where can I read about that ? I only know about pinning (I was never able to guess what numbers should I write to get the desired result) and the way I mentioned before. Cheers, Avraham
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