installing gnash on amd64 etch...

2007-08-12 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debianists, I downloaded the latest gnash deb file for amd64 etch. I tried to install it but I need some more recent libraries etc before it will work localhost:/home/mikef/gnash# dpkg -i gnash_0.8.0~cvs20070611.1016-1+b1_amd64.deb Selecting previously deselected package gnash.

Re: installing gnash on amd64 etch...

2007-08-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/12/07 02:45, Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debianists, I downloaded the latest gnash deb file for amd64 etch. I tried to install it but I need some more recent libraries etc before it will work localhost:/home/mikef/gnash# dpkg -i

Re: installing gnash on amd64 etch...

2007-08-12 Thread Michael Fothergill
/gnash# If I dig around in the debian packages and find later versions of libc6 and libgcc etc so that gnash will install will it be reasonably safe adding stuff from unstable to the etch release I am using? NO! Installing Unstable (and often Testing) packages onto Stable is a grand

Re: installing gnash on amd64 etch...

2007-08-12 Thread Cavan Mejias
depends on what you install I would say. I've had 50/50 results so far. On 12/08/07, Michael Fothergill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Debianists, I downloaded the latest gnash deb file for amd64 etch. I tried to install it but I need some more recent libraries etc before it will work

Re: installing gnash on amd64 etch...

2007-08-12 Thread David Fox
On 8/12/07, Michael Fothergill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the advice. I will keep my nose out of gnash unless I decide at some point to install debian testing (Lenny) etc... What you might try is to check to see if there is a backport of gnash available for your distribution

Re: installing gnash on amd64 etch...

2007-08-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 16:08:03 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: /gnash# If I dig around in the debian packages and find later versions of libc6 and libgcc etc so that gnash will install will it be reasonably safe adding stuff from unstable to the etch release I am using? NO!