On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 9:49 PM, <somewhatanonym...@hush.com> wrote: > Thanks, but how do I know what version I have except looking at what I once > downloaded? In case it's already updated. Shouldn't there be some kond of > "About" dialog somewhere?
$ dpkg -l|grep gnash > I have already restored sources.list to its original content. > > Upgrade system? Can that be done with apt-get? Apt-get update and then > apt-get upgrade? Then I think I have already done it several times. Ok probably you already upgraded to 7.4 then. Read man apt-get, you might want to use apt-get dist-upgrade too. > What do you mean is the difference of upgrading to 7.4 and "newer versions", > are "newer versions" newer than 7.4? Upgrading to 7.4 means upgrading all installed packages to the latest point release ones, a full system upgrade. As said. 7.4 ships a fix to play youtube videos by default, the only change in stable since 7.0 btw. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases/PointReleases > what would happen if I installed from > backport-repository? Would all changes like DNS and screen and mouse and > program settings disappear? Changes that I have had to run console commands > to alter. Installing from wheezy-backports means installing packages from testing/unstable rebuilt for wheezy (stable). So recent versions newer than stable ones. As Instructions page I pointed out says, you will add backports repo then you will only upgrade to backports version what you want, in your case gnash packages. Nothing else will change. Wheezy 7 0.8.11~git20120629-1 Wheezy 7.4 0.8.11~git20120629-1+deb7u1 testing (Jessie) 0.8.11~git20140319+dfsg-1 wheezy-backports 0.8.11~git20140319+dfsg-1~bpo70+1 > Thank you very much, you have already answered two questions, of which one I > have spent hours searching, not getting the answer. https://bugs.debian.org/724732#10 could answer some questions you have not made yet :) -- G..e
