David Fox wrote: > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Stuart Lesnett > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Good to hear more from you, I assume you've really been busy. My question >> is what about a large number of us running Ubuntu 8.04 32 bit mode? I'm > > That particular repository doesn't have 8.04 packages, just 8.10 and 9.04. > > Something that might work (YMMV, of course) would be to grab the > deb-src line for either intrepid or jaunty (it shouldn't matter > which), add it to your /etc/apt/sources.list, and then do an aptitude > update to synchronize the repository to your local package collection. > Then you could try to do "apt-get -b source ekiga" which, if it > fetches the ppa repository will attempt to build a local .deb package > for your system. You'll probably want to do an "apt-get build-dep > ekiga" so that all the build dependencies are downloaded so you can > build those as well. Usually, you'll have to apt-get -b source the > dependencies (opal and ptlib for sure, perhaps others) and of course > run any build-dep sessions against those dependencies, if they have > not already been installed on your system. > > It's a bit repetitive, but it should work - disclaimer is that I
This whole process can be made much easier using /etc/apt/preferences in which one specified which exact packages to pull from which repos (the additional repos are mentioned in /etc/apt/sources.list or added to the rest of the repos via the GUI). The following pages show how it is gone: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PinningHowto http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html This way one can mix various distributions or releases in a systematic manner. Regards. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without ever having been read. _______________________________________________ ekiga-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list
