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Posted: Oct. 27 2005,08:29 |
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| Quote | | also load them with MYDSL |
If by this you mean you want a load a .dsl extension on another debian-based hd-installed system, all you have to do is cd / and unpack the extension with tar. That's how I put the java FF plugin .dsl on my debian system, rather than download it again. As I recall that also required placing a symlink to the plugin so that FF could find it.
But there are issues to consider which are similar to those incurred by randomly compiling and installing anything on your debian system.
In the case of extensions that write files to /bin, /sbin etc , and where I am likely to want apt to very much keep track of these, I'd think about it before installing these on my debian system. With the "green" extensions you'd be safer since you can just delete these files, then apt-get install the newer regular deb package.
While apt can probably be coerced into seeing an installed dsl extension as exactly the same as a corresponding deb package, so it could subsequently be upgraded to a newer version in the usual way through apt-get or aptitude, I'm not sure if it'd be best to do this.
Also I'd consider the issue of dsl primarily using Woody whereas my debian system is Sarge. It may be best not to scatter Woody files across a Sarge system.
Then there are extensions containing stuff that was compiled against the 2.4.26 kernel. These may work with another kernel, on the other hand they may not.
My advice would be to avoid doing this if you are in doubt.
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