On Tue, 15 May 2001 20:56:34 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: >i suppose there's probably a better list for this, but seeing as how one of the >packages i'm trying to effect are "K programs" i'll shoot and see if anyone >bytes: > >i currently have a "stable" system. for the most part, i'd like to keep it that >way. however, there are some packages that i feel are negotiable and wouldn't >mind having the unstable versions of (and their dependancies, if the need >arizes) like: gimp, kaim, libqt, emacs, and some more. > >i was wondering if there was an easy way to do this?
I have taken the approach to build some stuff (gimp for instance) by getting the latest tarball, building from source and installing in the /usr/local directories. The trouble is, that this often means also installing other libraries also from source to get the right versions. For instance with the gimp, I also ended up installing glib and gtk+ this way as well. Unless you are careful that could screw up debian packages that require these libraries (in my case they didn't so I could go ahead with this). I have had a long unsuccesfull attempt at trying to do this with kmail. The problem being the dependence on a later version of the kdelibs that the "woody" distribution has. In the end, I built the whole of kde from the cvs and used ./configure --prefix=/usr in each package to "overwrite" the debian versions. Since doing this Ingo Klocker posted to the kmail mailing list that a better approach would be to build some of it in /opt/kde-cvs as follows "You should at least compile and install the following: - - kdesupport - - kdelibs - - kdenetwork/libkdenetwork - - kdenetwork/kmail In order to run KMail you could try using the following bash script: - ------------------------------------------------------------ #!/bin/bash export PATH=/opt/kde-cvs/bin:$PATH export KDEDIRS=/opt/kde-cvs:$KDEDIRS export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/kde-cvs/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH export LTDL_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/kde-cvs/lib:$LTDL_LIBRARY_PATH kdeinit kmail - ------------------------------------------------------------" and this was added to by Marc Mutz "Also consider compiling kdebase (KIO-POP/IMAP) and kdeutils (KAB)" I haven't got around to trying this yet - I am awaiting kde 2.2 beta 1 which is due out in a few days. Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chandler.u-net.com http://www.chandler.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
