How to upgrade a package in a linux distribution?

2009-02-07 Thread petrele.chen
Hi,all I want to install a package (ibus) in my ubuntu 8.04, it requires pygobject >= 2.15, but the host system only have 2.14 installed. What is the best way to upgade this package. I thonght If I install it to /usr/local directory, It may works. But during the configure of ibus, It reports tha

Re: How to upgrade a package in a linux distribution?

2009-02-07 Thread Alberto Hernando
2009/2/8 petrele.chen : > Hi,all > I want to install a package (ibus) in my ubuntu 8.04, > it requires pygobject >= 2.15, but the host system only > have 2.14 installed. What is the best way to upgade > this package. Hi. This is off-topic in this list. Please, look for info regarding your distrib

Re: How to upgrade a package in a linux distribution?

2009-02-07 Thread petrele.chen
On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 06:11 +0100, Alberto Hernando wrote: > This is off-topic in this list. Please, look for info regarding your > distribution. > Even so, I'll say that you just have to look for proper sources for > packages for ubuntu (I mean, /etc/apt/sources.list), then apt-get > update and t

Re: How to upgrade a package in a linux distribution?

2009-02-07 Thread Alberto Hernando
> > I'm confused. What's LFS for? It help people to known how a linux > system works and build a linux system piece by piece, isn't it? > Let me express the problem as this: > If I build a LFS with package management just like Ubuntu, and I > want to upgrade a package witch is relevant to a lot

Re: How to upgrade a package in a linux distribution?

2009-02-07 Thread petrele.chen
On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 07:14 +0100, Alberto Hernando wrote: > > > > Well, let's go step by step. > > LFS is a way to build your own distro. You don't end up with ubuntu, > gentoo, fedora or alike. Your goal is just to have a LFS. > BUT, you have to start from another working system, which usually

Re: How to upgrade a package in a linux distribution?

2009-02-08 Thread Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas
Hi, On Sun, Feb 08, at 12:07 petrele.chen wrote: > Hi,all > I want to install a package (ibus) in my ubuntu 8.04, > it requires pygobject >= 2.15, but the host system only > have 2.14 installed. What is the best way to upgade > this package. > I thonght If I install it to /usr/local directory, It

Re: How to upgrade a package in a linux distribution?

2009-02-08 Thread petrele.chen
On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 12:56 +0200, Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas wrote: > Sorry, but this is not the right mailing link to ask this kind > of questions. > I believe you will take better answers if you redirect this question > either to: > > a. one of the specialized ubuntu forums, possible by opening

Re: How to upgrade a package in a linux distribution?

2009-03-19 Thread Mike McCarty
petrele.chen wrote: [...] > And about LFS, I doesn't agree with you in some place. First, LFS is > a way to build your own OS _or_ learn the construction of a Linux OS, > and what you end up it with is not important at all. So, where the > question came from doesn't matter at all. the only thin