Re: "best practices" on debian

From: Akira Kitada (aktdjp_at_ybb.ne.jp)
Date: 12/30/03

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    Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 03:26:39 +0900
To: Anthony DiSante <orders@nodivisions.com>

    On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 12:49:57PM -0500, Anthony DiSante wrote:
    > Hello,
    >
    > I just installed Debian stable the other day, and with the help of
    > some of the folks on the list here, got it upgraded (apt-get
    > dist-upgrade) to the sarge "testing" packages. But some things,
    > like mozilla, and the alsa audio drivers, and gaim, and xfree86,
    > either didn't get installed, or didn't get upgraded to the current
    > versions.
    >
    > I found apt-get.org, and see that there are lots of debian packages
    > available from various sources there. But some things, for example
    > mozilla, are available right from the mozilla site as binaries that
    > have always "just worked" in my experience. Is it bad to install
    > mozilla that way, completely bypassing the apt system?
    >
    > Likewise for gaim, and the alsa audio drivers, I've never had any
    > trouble building them from source on my Slackware system, so I'd
    > guess they'd build fine on my Debian system. And I want to go to
    > XFree86 4.3, but dist-upgrade only gave me 4.2.
    >
    > I definitely want to have the latest versions for certain packages,
    > like these ones I've mentioned. But if I install them manually, is
    > that a problem? Isn't my whole apt system going to then be
    > out-of-sync with what's actually installed on my box? Or is there
    > a way to make apt give me the very latest versions (is that what
    > "unstable" is)?

    Yes. I think unstable is what you want.
    see releases guide
    http://www.debian.org/releases/index.en.html

    to know what things you can get is
    http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages

    apt has -t option, with which you can specify the target-release
    you like to get.
    details on this, see apt-get(8)

    but there is some things that you can't get with apt-system.
    I don't know how do-it-yourself package affect debian-system.
    I like to know that, too.

    thanks. 

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