Thomas Krause wrote: > Hello, > > > > I’m in the process of updating our old SystemImager server based on > Gentoo to a new Debian based server. > > > > I noticed that the support for Debian in SI seems to have been increased > significantly recently and I want to take advantage of this. > > > > However the online documentation doesn’t seem to reflect these > advantages (I could only find a tutorial for installing SI on Debian > from sources). > > > > So, I’m wondering: what is the recommended way to install system imager > on Debian? Are the Debian packages ready to be used? > > > > If so, what is the easiest way to install systemimager and dependencies. > I can’t find systemimager via apt-get, so I guess they are not in the > official debian tree (yet). I’m no expert in debian package management > but I guess I have to download the .deb’s manually and install them with > ‘dpkg -i …’), correct? > > > > I’m currently targeting the 4.1.4 unstable release of SI. >
I would suggest to use the fresh released 4.1.6. You can simply download the opportune .deb packages and install them by dpkg -i. And, I agree, the install from source on Debian howto is totally deprecated, maybe we should remove/hide it on wiki. Anyway, there's a big warning on top saying: "This procedure is deprecated in version 3.9.2 and later: simply run `make deb` to build Debian packages (.deb) from source." So, actually, even if you want to build from source (instead of using official binary packages, that is *always* the strongly suggested way, except for private hacking stuff), a simple "make deb" is the only thing to do. -Andrea ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
