On Tuesday 14 Oct 2003 00:56, Jonathan Andrews wrote: > Debian newbie question. > > If Unstable is more up to date than stable can I/how do I switch apt to > update from the newer archive ?
It is indeed more current, but obviously less stable. The easiest way to switch is to edit your /etc/sources.list file and change every occurance of "stable" to "unstable". > > Also from people who have done this how architecture neutral are the > gnome-lib & kdelib sources ? Is it likely I can build a new fangled > desktop from the bottom up or will I be in for tracking down obscure > porting bugs as well as dependency. I can cope with difficult compiles, > but I'm probably not up to fixing source bugs. > I should imagine you can just apt-get everything you need. David. -- My other .sig is funny.
