apt-get upgrade

Forum: Apt-get
Topic: apt-get upgrade
started by: speaker

Posted by speaker on Jan. 23 2004,00:35

I think this may have been answered is some form earlier. I want to upgrade to distro 5.3 so I can get sylpheed 0.9.8 Can I--earlier post answer "Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and change it to use the 'testing' branch instead of the 'stable' branch. You'll see a bunch of lines that are
commented out (they start with a #) and one line that's not. In the one line that's not commented, change the word 'stable' to 'testing' (no quotes). Save the file,
then run 'apt-get update' at the command line (again, no quotes). I tried t his before and did apt-get install sylpheed and it gave me 0.9.7- want to use the new newsreader feature for yEnc.

Posted by peter on Jan. 24 2004,22:01

You could try the following on a hard drive install of DSL:

After setting up apt, do

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apt-get install gcc g++ make

Download latest source code of Sylpheed ( probably a * tar.gz file)

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tar xzvf sylpheed (hit tab to complete file name)

then change directory to the new one created (sylpheed without the tar.gz suffix - again tab completion helps)

Then compile, which is probably the usual

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./configure && make && make install (as root at least for the last step) [

It pays to read the README files and others that might be in the source tarball but this should be close. You might also, before trying this, want to do

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apt-get install checkinstall

checkinstall makes it possible to compile and build your own deb package which is then easier to uninstall and gets added to the apt /dpkg database after you install your newly created deb ( dpkg -i <packagename> )