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 '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
Yes. > - add the file locations to apt.conf or apt.list > - run dselect No. > 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? yes, it will. 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. Anand -- `` We are shaped by our thoughts, we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. '' -- Buddha, The Dhammapada -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
