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. Consensus seems to be that I will have problems with chains of dependencies if I try to upgrade by downloading sub-packages file-by-file. According to the release notes, the very next version of Dia after the one in Potato has a .png export filter, and that's what I need. I succeeded in compiling Dia on my pre-Debian system and it wasn't so difficult once I got the order of opperations right (thanks to help from the SLUG list). As for setting up a network and accessing the Debian website through my windows laptop (Jeff's kind suggestion), that's a bit too advanced for me. I managed to set up a very simple Samba connection on my pre-Debian system and I was pretty proud of myself when I did just that! Thanks again, Mark A. Bell --- Anand Kumria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 __________________________________________________ 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
