daviseh wrote:
> After searching threads I found that you have to DL the deb package for
> the PPC and do a manual install. It is not available by apt-get update.

Well, all that apt-get really does is automate the download and install
process by calling 'dpkg'

> "dpkg -i foo.deb"
> 
> I assume that "foo" is the name of the deb package. Does the dpkg -i
> overwrite the existing installation while retaining all of the
> settings, etc?

Correct. if you have foo.deb, then
dpkg -i foo.deb

if you have baz.deb, then
dpkg -i baz.deb

I'm not 100% sure that its always safe, but most of the time, it just
does the update you want. The documentation (man dpkg) says it does the
update.

As always, when changing software, its good to have backups.


-- 
Pat Farrell
http://www.pfarrell.com/

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