apt frustration

Folks, I run a little home office network. Most of it is stable, slink at the moment, but I like to keep some stuff really leading edge (Java, DocBook/Jade, egcs c). A simple way to do this would SEEM to be to use apt/deity. It'd be great to be able to say: keep everything stable according to

ldconfig confusions

Folks, I'm trying to get Blackdown's JDK 1.2 port to work on my Debian box. The port is very sensitive to the version of glibc that's installed. They suggest glibc2.1 (which is not in slink). I tried to update to that library using .debs from the unstable. Now, I seem to have a confusing mess

JDK 1.2 and libhpi.so

Folks, I'm interested in getting JDK 1.2 to work on box. I've upgraded to slink and downloaded JDK 1.2 from Blackstone. When I try to run javac I get the following: /usr/local/jdk1.2/bin/i386/native_threads/javac: error in loading shared libraries libhpi.so: cannot open shared object file: No

docbook-stylesheets

Folks, I'm trying to use the docbook-stylesheets (v. 1.07-1). I've got a simple outline and I've managed to get jade to accept it (after a little struggling). I have two big problems though: When I try to use HTML output, I don't get anything generated (or if I do I can't find it). Can anyone

Kernel configurations

Folks, I now have several networked Linux boxes; but they all have different hardware and do different things and they have different kernels. I have trouble keeping track of what options are compiled into which kernels and I'm beginning to be frustrated. Can anyone suggest a way of doing this?