Re: Pining for Qt 5.4

2015-05-03 Thread Markus-Hermann Koch
Hello Christian, My guess is that in your previous attempt you added experimental to your sources.list but didn't pin the release to a negative number, so other packages might have automatically crept in in some cases, screwing up your system that way. But if you pin experimental to a

Re: Pining for Qt 5.4

2015-05-03 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 08:28:26AM +0200, Markus-Hermann Koch wrote: Hi folks! I would like to use Qt 5.4 for its QOpenGLWidget. However, Qt 5.4 is still stuck in experimental. Being a user I now seem to have several options: ... What would you do? Personally, I'd fire up a Debian docker

Re: Pining for Qt 5.4

2015-05-02 Thread Christian Seiler
On 05/01/2015 08:28 AM, Markus-Hermann Koch wrote: I would like to use Qt 5.4 for its QOpenGLWidget. However, Qt 5.4 is still stuck in experimental. Being a user I now seem to have several options: [...] What would you do? 5. Install the packages from experimental. If you really want to be

Re: Pining for Qt 5.4

2015-05-02 Thread Markus-Hermann Koch
Hi Christian, thanks for your detailed answer! Sigh. I am still hoping to avoid experimental on this one (being already traumatized from past experiences culminating in complete reinstallation into my now clean 'unstable' system with its single media package libdvdcss2). Still: If I can make

Re: Pining for Qt 5.4

2015-05-02 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 02 May 2015 14:11:30 Christian Seiler wrote: On 05/01/2015 08:28 AM, Markus-Hermann Koch wrote: I would like to use Qt 5.4 for its QOpenGLWidget. However, Qt 5.4 is still stuck in experimental. Being a user I now seem to have several options: [...] What would you do? 5.

Re: Pining for Qt 5.4

2015-05-02 Thread Frederic Marchal
On Friday 01 May 2015 08:28:26 Markus-Hermann Koch wrote: Hi folks! I would like to use Qt 5.4 for its QOpenGLWidget. However, Qt 5.4 is still stuck in experimental. Being a user I now seem to have several options: 2.) Grant root privileges to ./qt-opensource-linux-x64-1.6.0-8-online.run

Re: Pining for Qt 5.4

2015-05-02 Thread Christian Seiler
On 05/02/2015 04:00 PM, Markus-Hermann Koch wrote: thanks for your detailed answer! Sigh. I am still hoping to avoid experimental on this one (being already traumatized from past experiences culminating in complete reinstallation into my now clean 'unstable' system with its single media

Re: Pining for Qt 5.4

2015-05-02 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 02 May 2015 15:57:49 Christian Seiler wrote: On 05/02/2015 04:00 PM, Markus-Hermann Koch wrote: thanks for your detailed answer! Sigh. I am still hoping to avoid experimental on this one (being already traumatized from past experiences culminating in complete reinstallation

Re: Pining for Qt 5.4

2015-05-02 Thread Markus-Hermann Koch
P.S.: Feeling sheepish... Reading Frederics answer I tried the .run again. No idea what I did wrong yesterday, this time a Qt window popped up, asking me where I want the Qt 5.4 installation to be put. This is exactly what I wanted. Thanks again! Cheers, Markus. On 02.05.2015 15:11,

Re: Pining for Qt 5.4

2015-05-02 Thread Christian Seiler
On 05/02/2015 05:06 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: Does the -t wheezy-backports format only work with backports? No, it works here as well. From the manpage of apt-get: This option controls the default input to the policy engine; it creates a default pin at priority 990 using the specified release

Re: Pining for Qt 5.4

2015-05-02 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 02 May 2015 16:36:30 Christian Seiler wrote: On 05/02/2015 05:06 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: Does the -t wheezy-backports format only work with backports? No, it works here as well. From the manpage of apt-get: This option controls the default input to the policy engine; it creates

Re: Pining for Qt 5.4

2015-05-02 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 02 May 2015 22:32:27 Bob Bernstein wrote: On Sat, 2 May 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: I have always had trouble getting my head round pinning [...] I've been reading the Subject: line of this thread as literally pining, i.e. longing desperately for something that never arrives. I

Re: Pining for Qt 5.4

2015-05-02 Thread The Wanderer
On 05/02/2015 at 06:33 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 02 May 2015 22:32:27 Bob Bernstein wrote: On Sat, 2 May 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: I have always had trouble getting my head round pinning [...] I've been reading the Subject: line of this thread as literally pining, i.e. longing

Re: Pining for Qt 5.4

2015-05-02 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 02 May 2015 23:56:30 The Wanderer wrote: On 05/02/2015 at 06:33 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 02 May 2015 22:32:27 Bob Bernstein wrote: On Sat, 2 May 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: I have always had trouble getting my head round pinning [...] I've been reading the Subject: line

Re: Pining for Qt 5.4

2015-05-02 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 03 May 2015 00:40:17 Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 02 May 2015 23:56:30 The Wanderer wrote: On 05/02/2015 at 06:33 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 02 May 2015 22:32:27 Bob Bernstein wrote: On Sat, 2 May 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: I have always had trouble getting my head round

Re: Pining for Qt 5.4

2015-05-02 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sat, 2 May 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: I have always had trouble getting my head round pinning [...] I've been reading the Subject: line of this thread as literally pining, i.e. longing desperately for something that never arrives. That wonderful line from the Monty Python Dead Parrot

Re: Pining for Qt 5.4

2015-05-02 Thread The Wanderer
On 05/02/2015 at 07:45 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 03 May 2015 00:40:17 Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 02 May 2015 23:56:30 The Wanderer wrote: Given that the original poster's question did not include the word pin in any form, and pinning did not enter the discussion until Christian

Pining for Qt 5.4

2015-05-01 Thread Markus-Hermann Koch
Hi folks! I would like to use Qt 5.4 for its QOpenGLWidget. However, Qt 5.4 is still stuck in experimental. Being a user I now seem to have several options: 1.) Wait it out. Could you give me preview if that is a feasible plan? 2.) Grant root privileges to