[GRLUG] Debian

[David Pembrook]

I did apt-get update. That is all I need to do right? This is a fresh
network install of Sarge.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Roberto Villarreal" <rvillarreal at mktec.com>
To: "GRLUG general mailing list" <grlug at grandrapids-lug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: [GRLUG] Debian


> You might want to try putting some new sources in your sources.list
> file.  I show 5.0...
>
> Roberto
>
> David Pembrook wrote:
> > I'm poking around on a fresh install and am seeing 4.1 available.. No
> > mention of the 5.x series...
> >
> > Compile time I guess LOL
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "zdennis" <zdennis at mktec.com>
> > To: "GRLUG general mailing list" <grlug at grandrapids-lug.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 2:04 PM
> > Subject: Re: [GRLUG] Debian
> >
> >
> >
> >>David Pembrook wrote:
> >>
> >>>How do you know what version of a given package is in what state
> >>>(stable,testing...) I've always left machines stock in that regard but
I
> >>>want to try say... the newest MySQL.. Whenever I've use apt on redhat,
> >>>I'm just getting the latest in the current major release but never a
> >>>jump from say 3.x to 4.x which makes sence as they've made substantial
> >>>changes and you need to be carefull doing that kind of jump. Is Debian
> >>>going to let me specify using apt what version of MySQL I get for
> >
> > instance?
> >
> >>You can use:
> >>
> >>
> >>>apt-cache search libmysql | cut -d" " -f1 | xargs apt-cache show |
> >
> >  grep -E "Package|Version"
> >
> >>To output:
> >>
> >>Package: libmysqlclient10
> >>Version: 3.23.56-3
> >>Package: libmysqlclient10-dev
> >>Version: 3.23.56-3
> >>Package: libmysqlclient12
> >>Version: 4.0.24-10sarge1
> >>Package: libmysqlclient12
> >>Version: 4.0.24-10
> >>Package: libmysqlclient12-dev
> >>Version: 4.0.24-10sarge1
> >>Package: libmysqlclient12-dev
> >>Version: 4.0.24-10
> >>Package: libmysqlclient14
> >>Version: 4.1.11a-4sarge2
> >>Package: libmysqlclient14
> >>Version: 4.1.11a-4
> >>Package: libmysqlclient14-dev
> >>Version: 4.1.11a-4sarge2
> >>Package: libmysqlclient14-dev
> >>Version: 4.1.11a-4
> >>
> >>Where the version goes to the above package, this way you can pick the
> >
> > package to install which
> >
> >>matches the version you want...
> >>
> >>Zach
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