Re: "best practices" on debian

From: Colin Watson (cjwatson_at_debian.org)
Date: 12/31/03

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    On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 12:49:57PM -0500, Anthony DiSante wrote:
    > 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.

    For what it's worth, mozilla should (finally!) be upgraded to 1.5 in
    testing as of the next mirror pulse.

    > 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?

    I agree with those who've mentioned /usr/local. Trying to mix testing
    and unstable is likely to be confusing, particularly if you're new to
    Debian.

    Cheers, 

    -- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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