Shahrukh Merchant wrote:
> Mmm, OK. If I see the version column on the left at the *Debian* version
> tracker link http://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gddrescue indeed the current
> STABLE seems to be 1.23 and the previous stable 1.21 (and there is a "To Do"
> list that notes that 1.25 is available as yo
Hi Shahrukh,
Shahrukh Merchant wrote:
Note that (from the link above) Ubuntu seems to be distributing 1.23
also.
OK, I'm still figuring this out, so bear with me. The link you refer to
is the Debian link, so not sure where you infer that Ubuntu is also
distributing 1.23.
At the bottom of htt
> From: "Shahrukh Merchant"
> Hi António,
>
>> I guess that by "Linux" you mean "a given distribution".
>
> Or I suppose I meant "a given repository," which then affects all
> distributions that use that repository ... though as I mentioned I'm
> still trying to figure out the correlation betwe
Hi António,
I guess that by "Linux" you mean "a given distribution".
Or I suppose I meant "a given repository," which then affects all
distributions that use that repository ... though as I mentioned I'm
still trying to figure out the correlation between those two. :-)
... For example, Ubu
Hello Shahrukh,
Shahrukh Merchant wrote:
- Which version of software gets incorporated into a particular release
(LTS or not) of Linux? Or, as I speculated above, are the software
repository updates really independent (in their timelines) of the OS
updates?
I guess that by "Linux" you mean "a
Thanks Timothy (and Tom too for your earlier reply).
Great, your instructions were exactly what I needed! I had googled
around and came across these instructions at
https://tinyapps.org/blog/201609300700_ddrescue_ubuntu.html for a manual
install to address a similar version situation a few yea
Hi Shahrukh,
On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 11:31 PM Shahrukh Merchant wrote:
>
> Hello, I just installed Linux Mint 19.3 (latest version) and to my
> disappointment find that its software repository has ddrescue 1.22 from
> 2017 when the current version is 1.25 from 2020!
Wow, this is pretty remarkable
