Hi
Thanks to Anand and the other people who've given advice.
Personally if I had to do this, I'd be thinking about
downloading dia source and compiling. If you are on dialup it'd be
much faster than downloading all the dependancies I'd imagine.
Yes, I think I'll try compiling next.
Hi,
I'm a new Debian user. I've just installed Dia (cool diagram
application) from my set of Debian Potato CD's. The potato distribution
includes an early version of Dia and I need a later one (to export .png
files). The 'testing' distribution on the Debian web-site includes a
newer version of
quote who=Mark A. Bell
The problem is, my Linux machine is not connected to the net so I can't
just use 'apt-get upgrade' to install the 'testing' version. My (now
much neglected) windows laptop has a net connection.
Could you set up the Windows machine with ICS or something similar in the
- download the dia.deb files and copy them to my Linux machine
- use dpkg to check which support libraries I need to upgrade
- fetch any updated versions of the support libraries
- add the file locations to apt.conf or apt.list
- run dselect
It's easier
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 05:51:43PM -0700, Mark A. Bell wrote:
Hi,
I'm a new Debian user. I've just installed Dia (cool diagram
application) from my set of Debian Potato CD's. The potato distribution
includes an early version of Dia and I need a later one (to export .png
files). The
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 11:12:57AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
GNOME, launched specifically to counter a threat to our freedom, is
the free software project par excellence. - Richard Stallman
Funnily enough, Qt and KDE are now GPLed. So you're saying that GNOME
now has no
