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From: David Pirotte <david@altosw.be>
To: Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: guile-2.0.11 installation on system with 2.0.5
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 14:33:33 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140915143333.521f9af0@capac> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKrPhPNFVyePhysUnHij0rHPZ8nepX9LwbQMxoOxuK29sfSz6Q@mail.gmail.com>

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Hello,

> As far as I inderstand the Debian package manager mantains a package
> database. This is the place where it looks for installed packages. So,
> if I have a newer version of guile which is not installed through the
> package manager, the package manager will not know about it.

even if you are locked in a debian stable, you can, and you should in the case of
guile really, install packages from testing, unstable and even experimental [which
is not recommended unless you know what you are doing of course].

So:

	update your /etc/apt/sources.list, add a line with testing source
	update you /etc/preferences
		
		Package: *
		Pin: release a=stable
		Pin-Priority: 800
	
		Package: guile
		Pin: release a=testing
		Pin-Priority: 600

	aptitude update
	aptitude
		search for the guile-2.0 package aptitude entry
		press enter [Menu: Package -> information]
		select and install the testing version [2.0.11+1-1 as of today]

with that setting, aptitude|debian future updates will track and offer you to update
the installed guile-2.0 testing package, while keeping everything else on stable...
there are doc about that, duckduckgo for it...

Cheers,
David

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-15 17:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-15 16:46 guile-2.0.11 installation on system with 2.0.5 Federico Beffa
2014-09-15 17:33 ` David Pirotte [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-09-16 11:09 Federico Beffa
2014-09-16 13:13 ` Federico Beffa
2014-09-16 18:16   ` David Pirotte
2014-09-15 11:46 Federico Beffa
2014-09-15 15:00 ` Chris Vine
2014-09-16 16:26   ` Mark H Weaver
2014-09-14 15:42 Federico Beffa
2014-09-14 23:07 ` Chris Vine
2014-09-15  7:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-09-14 15:37 Federico Beffa
2014-09-15  1:16 ` mhw
2014-09-15  9:49   ` Neil Jerram
2014-09-15 10:22     ` Federico Beffa
2014-09-15 10:44       ` Chris Vine
2014-09-15 14:15     ` Mark H Weaver
2014-09-15 10:27   ` Chris Vine
2014-09-14  8:02 Federico Beffa
2014-09-13 12:52 Federico Beffa
2014-09-14  1:17 ` Vernon Oberholzer
2014-09-14 14:32 ` Neil Jerram
2014-09-14 14:33 ` Ludovic Courtès

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