RE: [Sheflug] Debian

[Alex Hudson <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 21:44, Mark Broadbent wrote:
> > For instance, I seem to have an old version of GIMP, but what
> > would be the
> > best way of gettting a new version?
> 
> The best thing to do is upgrade to sid which is currently in the unstable
> distribution line (though I believe it's due for release quite soon so it
> should be pretty much stable).

Not quite :) Sid will never, ever, ever be 'released' - he's a naughty
boy and should stay locked up.

woody (testing), on the other hand, _is_ nearing release and is pretty
good. Although my fonts in X are nadgered at the moment - I run a
combination of potato/testing/Ximian, which has interesting effects
sometimes. (Btw- 'nearing' for values of 'nearing'=='this year
sometime').

> the versions required, probably best to stick to using apt/dselect to ensure
> the distribution stays easily upgradeable - that's what I tend to do bar a
> few exceptions (samba v2.2 being one).

If you start to add odd apt lines (like Ximian), make sure you know how
to hold packages, state versions (i.e., =1.3.6-ximian2) and really you
ought to use dselect. However, the interface to dselect sucks. The
interface to apt is pretty good, but you'll find yourself doing a lot of
'apt-get -f install', 'dpkg --reconfigure ..' and stuff like that
because it doesn't get dependencies right, whereas dselect does. 

Cheers,

Alex.

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