On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Kelly Clowers <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 06:13, James Stuckey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > You shouldn't do it like this. If you do, you very well may end up with > an > > unstable system. > > What? Why would it be unstable? > > > Upgrade to testing by the instructions I gave you, and then > > backport this package to testing from experimental. > > > > a) put experimental deb-src only in your sources.list > > b) update aptitude > > c) apt-get build-dep inkscape (or whatever the package name is) > > d) apt-get -b source inkscape > > e) install resulting inkscape deb > > Hmmm, I never really got how to use source packages. Is that really > all there is to it? > > > Cheers, > Kelly Clowers > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > First, because experimental is just that: experimental. Secondly, apt may very well pull in a lot of other stuff with it. That's one way to use source packages, yes.
