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 Dia.
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. So my question is, in general terms what will I have to do to upgrade my current version of Dia to the newer 'testing' version? I presume that I'll have to: - 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 Do I have this roughly right? Also, could upgrading the support libraries for Dia (like gdk-pixbuf, libxml, etc) to the 'testing' version make other applications that depend on those libraries unstable? Thanks, Mark A. Bell __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more http://games.yahoo.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
