egm2@jps.net wrote: > > On 22 Jul, Carl Fink wrote: > | > apt-get --install icewm > | > > | > should be all you need to do. > | > | No, actually it isn't, since that would install the version in > | *stable*. That's what I have installed now. What I'd like to do is > | install the version in *unstable*, without changing all my other > | packages to the unstable version. > > My bad. In that case, you're gonna have to go for broke and upgrade the > whole shebang. Too many things have changed. Or, you could try > compiling the sources against your libraries. Can't guarantee that'll > work though.
I have some suggestions, having recently (over many months) gone gradually from recompiling potato packages under slink, to upgrading to libc6.1 under slink, to a full potato installation on one system, while keeping others on slink with the occasional newer package added. I think it's smart to take it slowly. Don't just jump to potato with an apt-get dist-upgrade; potato has too many frequently-changing pieces. You can investigate what apt-get *would* do for a particular package, by pointing your sources.list at the potato distribution and doing: apt-get --simulate install icewm That'll show you all the things it would upgrade on your behalf if you went ahead and did it without the "--simulate" option. Go read the changelogs for the packages that would be upgraded, and check the open bug reports (at bugs.debian.org/packagename); if things appear to be workable, give it a try, but be prepared to fall back if it doesn't work. Good luck.