From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chris Vine Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: guile-2.0.11 installation on system with 2.0.5 Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 16:00:31 +0100 Message-ID: <20140915160031.19d405d4@bother.homenet> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1410793303 4883 80.91.229.3 (15 Sep 2014 15:01:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 15:01:43 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 15 17:01:36 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XTXmY-0006DN-No for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Sep 2014 17:01:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60366 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XTXmY-00056L-DV for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Sep 2014 11:01:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51299) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XTXle-0004BZ-IF for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Sep 2014 11:00:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XTXlV-0006k3-QP for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Sep 2014 11:00:38 -0400 Original-Received: from smtpout3.wanadoo.co.uk ([80.12.242.59]:53984 helo=smtpout.wanadoo.co.uk) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XTXlV-0006jN-D7 for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Sep 2014 11:00:29 -0400 Original-Received: from bother.homenet ([95.151.180.56]) by mwinf5d41 with ME id rT0R1o00P1DQSUn03T0Rs0; Mon, 15 Sep 2014 17:00:27 +0200 X-ME-Helo: bother.homenet X-ME-Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 17:00:27 +0200 X-ME-IP: 95.151.180.56 Original-Received: from bother.homenet (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bother.homenet (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE48F899AE for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2014 16:00:31 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.10.0 (GTK+ 2.24.24; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.12.242.59 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:11512 Archived-At: On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 13:46:07 +0200 Federico Beffa wrote: [snip] > Your guess is correct: The distribution that I'm using (Debian wheezy) > ships 2.0.5 as the newest guile version and I need to keep it to > satisfy dependencies of other distribution supplied packages. > However, I would like to experiment with a newer version of guile. I > will then follow your advice and install it in a different directory. Surely dependency requirements would be satisfied by a later library version with the same so name? I should read up the documentation on dpkg. But quite honestly, if you want to experiment with newer software don't use an archaic distribution such as debian stable, which is out of date even when first released. Chris