Installing a "backport"

2010-03-20 Thread Rogerio Luz Coelho
Here is how you go about not damaging your system in ANY WAY: Find a package/program in your distribution´s repository that suits you and doesn´t come from Backports, Backporting stuff is almost running Stable/Testing, somethings won´t matter ... but many will, I only recommend Backports if you c

Re: Installing a "backport"

2010-03-20 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 20 March 2010 16:16:01 Stephen Powell wrote: > By the way, saying something like "please be sure you are correct before > replying" is a good way to get no replies at all. This was certainly what put me off replying. This was one of the rare occasions where I would have felt possibly

Re: Installing a "backport"

2010-03-20 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:14:56 -0400 (EDT), Gary L. Roach wrote: > > Needing some project management software, I decided to install redmine. > I purposely keep my system at the stable release. Redmine was marked as > [backports] ie it's been pulled down from testing or experimental. OK > thats fi

Re: Installing a "backport"

2010-03-20 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2010-03-20, Gary L. Roach wrote: > Needing some project management software, I decided to install redmine. > I purposely keep my system at the stable release. Redmine was marked as > [backports] ie it's been pulled down from testing or experimental. OK > thats fine, except when I tried to in

Installing a "backport"

2010-03-19 Thread Gary L. Roach
Needing some project management software, I decided to install redmine. I purposely keep my system at the stable release. Redmine was marked as [backports] ie it's been pulled down from testing or experimental. OK thats fine, except when I tried to install the package most of the required libra