Installing debs from Mepis

[Pete]

You certainly could do that, but first you might want to shoot an email to
either the Debian or Ubuntu package maintainer and see what their timeframe
is for packaging the newer version. Especially for Debian Unstable, that
stuff gets updated very quickly, they just might not have gotten to it.

-p.

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Nigel Ridley <nigel at rmk.co.il> wrote:

> Pete wrote:
> > On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Nigel Ridley <nigel at rmk.co.il> wrote:
> >
> >> Pete wrote:
> >>> I wouldn't add the repository, you never know what kind of different
> >>> versions or different builds of the same versions of stuff are in
> there,
> >> and
> >>> apt will just blindly install whatever it sees as the "most recent
> >> version"
> >>> of stuff, without regard to where it's coming from. Just pull that deb
> >> from
> >>> their repository and install it via dpkg.
> >>>
> >>> -p.
> >> How do I do that? I know it sounds a nooby question but I've never had
> the
> >> occasion to do
> >> something like that before.
> >
> >
> > Where did you find the package? I'm having a ton of trouble finding the
> > Mepis repositories.  In any event, find the repository, find the
> package,
> > download it to your hard drive,  then either:
> >
> > 1. "sudo dpkg -i /path/to/foo.deb" (without the quotes, and replacing
> the
> > slug filepath with the actual path to the package, probably
> > /home/you/foo.deb)
> >
> > 2. Open it in Gdebi if you have that installed, and click "install."
> >
> > best-
> > p.
> >
> >
> I found the repository here:
> ftp://ftp.mepis.com/mepis/dists/mepis-7.0/main/binary-i386/
> but on checking I can't find any mention of bibletime :-(
>
> Oh well - next step - compile! [
> http://www.bibletime.info/software_installation.html] or
> could I use one of the rpm's and use alien on it? If so, which one -
> fedora, redhat or suse?
>
> Blessings,
>
> Nigel
>
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