Re: Installing a Lenny package to an Etch machine

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 08:15:51PM +0100, andy wrote:
Greetings

I am wanting to install Homebank on an Etch machine. Trouble is, it looks
like it is only available for testing/Lenny and Sid.

http://homebank.free.fr/index.php?id=20
http://packages.qa.debian.org/h/homebank.html

Is it best to simply give this a miss, or to download a tar ball and
convert it to a deb package via (is it) alien? Or, can one install a
testing package on a stable machine?

First I would try to install it with 'dpkg -i'. Another option would be
to set 'APT::Default-Release "stable";' in /etc/apt/apt.conf, add a
source for lenny and try to install with
'aptitude install -t lenny homebank'. If this doesn't pull in too many
dependencies (where 'too many' depends on your luck/guts/phase of the
moon/...) than you're good to go.

The safest option would probably be to try rebuilding the package for
ethc (backporting). AFAIK this involves some invocation of
'apt-get build-dep' 'apt-get source' with some '-t lenny' and others.

Regards,
Andrei
P.S. alien AFAIK is used to convert rpm packages to deb. tar balls
usually contain only the source which you need to compile and install
with something like './configure' 'make' 'make install'. If you go that
route make sure you install it in /usr/local in order to keep it away
from apt.
--
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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