At 11:16 pm, Monday, February 25 2002, Matthew Dalton mumbled: > If all you want to do is install libdb3 (which exists in testing and > unstable, but not in stable), your best bet is to 'apt-get source' the > libdb3 source package from testing or unstable, and build it against > potato's libraries. That way you won't have to upgrade libc. > > You'll need a deb-src line in your sources.list. Also, read the apt-get > man page for the 'source' command and the '--build' switch. > *And* you'll need to build libdb2 from testing or unstable as well, since libdb3 conflicts with the potato version of the package. On second thought, just ask Matt Hope[1] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, if he has backported the db packages to potato.
[1]: Matt Hope - the only developer wanting to run sid on potato.
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Steve
Why is it called "common sense" when nobody seems to have any?
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