On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Andy Zbikowski (Zibby) wrote: > On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Timothy Wilson wrote: > > > You know, I've been using Debian for a while now and I've never bothered to > > use apt-get source. Does the source build automatically install itself in > > place of the existing binary version? If so, how is that different than > > "backporting" a binary from another Debian version? > > If you use apt-get -b source apache it will. :) > > The difference is that the new package will be built agnist the older libs > of your potato install instead of the newer libs in woody. The difference > is version numbers. It's very lickly that the woody package will depend on > newer libs that are in woody, and thus won't install. I'm actually running a 2.4.x kernel on this box. Right away after installing Potato I updated a few packages (using someone's collection of "required debs for running 2.4.x on Potato") to be compatible with the 2.4 requirements. Perhaps that would help? Otherwise, I suppose I could upgrade the whole thing to woody. I've had absolutely no problems with woody on another server of mine, but I get a little nervous about the prospect of putting woody on our school district's Web server. -Tim -- Tim Wilson | Visit Sibley online: | Check out: Henry Sibley HS | http://www.isd197.org | http://www.zope.com W. St. Paul, MN | | http://slashdot.org wilson at visi.com | <dtml-var pithy_quote> | http://linux.com