Ubuntu install problem

[Vaughn Treude]

On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 16:09, Bart Garst wrote:
> > Thanks for the advice.  If I add a repository to the list, how does that
> > work?  (I figured out how to do this in Synaptic, but don't know what
> > will happen if I do.)  Does it automatically search the new repository
> > site last?  Or can I specify which one to look in first for a given
> > search?  I'd probably have to do the latter, since imlib on ubuntu isn't
> > missing, it's just broken.  Another question - how would I know which
> > Debian repository was compatible with Ubuntu 5.04??
> >
> > Vaughn
> 
> I was under the impression that debian & ubuntu were compatible. I may have
> been wrong in that assumption. I found this (http://tinyurl.com/cnkct) on
> Slashdot and it sounds as if mixing the two is a bad idea.

I'd expect they could be compatible, if you got exactly the right
versions of everything.  Which probably is more trouble that it's
worth.  :-)

> When you add a repository, you would need to run `apt-get update`. Then when
> you attempt to install a package, apt will search *all* the repositories it
> knows about for the most current version. I don't think there is a search
> order.
> 
> If it were my system, and I was facing the dilemma you are, I'd attempt an
> install via the ubuntu source package. If that failed, I'd attempt to build
> from a tar ball.

Good idea.  I'll try that.  I do have emacs21 running now - didn't care
whether I had emacs or xemacs as long as I didn't have to use vi - but
I'll probably need that library some day, as I do a lot of graphics
conversions.

Thanks for the help,
Vaughn

> 
> I don't know where any ubuntu source repositories are. If you manage to
> locate them, you can read about using apt to install from source here:
> http://tinyurl.com/25n7c
> 
> Bart
> 
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