Debian et al: was re: Mandriva

[Mike Reinehr]

On Wednesday 18 May 2005 07:09 pm, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> Ken Moffat wrote:
> > Second on the libranet recommendation. If you have an interest in
> > debian, and don't mind paying, libranet 3.0 is very good. They have
> > a free version (2.8.1) with a good installer, but it's quite dated.
> > It is, however, upgradeable to sarge or sid sources with a bit of
> > work.
>
> What kind of work?  System config tools?  What besides adding the
> repos for sarge or sid?

You would need to edit the /etc/apt/apt.conf & /etc/apt/sources.list files. 
Libranet 3.0 ships with a sources list that draws primarily from their own, 
"safe" archive, as well as several others, and then sets up pinning in 
apt.conf to determine what gets downloaded from where. It's a hybrid of 
sarge, sid & some non-free stuff.

Libranet 2.8.1 give you a choice of using the Libranet archive or regular 
Debian archives.

Once you have apt configured as you would like it, then you would use 
aptitude, synaptic or apt-get to upgrade the packages.

cmr

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