http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/ 2008-08-11T12:50:42+00:00 http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/ http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2008-07-28T13:42:13+00:00 Alexander Wirt http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=contribute&rev=1217252533&do=diff1217252533 The packages on backports.org are made by volunteers. If you like to help with backporting packages from the Debian archive, make sure you follow these guidelines. Packaging Basic Rules * Subscribe to the backports users mailinglist. Every announcement and bugreport should come over this mailinglist, so this is a must. * Use “etch-backports” as distribution, neither “stable” nor “unstable”. * Make sure that you have a proper build environment which only contains etch and… text/html 2008-07-11T13:22:43+00:00 Alexander Wirt http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=start&rev=1215782563&do=diff1215782563 Introduction You are running Debian stable, because you prefer the stable Debian tree. It runs great, there is just one problem: the software is a little bit outdated compared to other distributions. That is where backports come in. Backports are recompiled packages from testing (mostly) and unstable (in a few cases only, e.g. security updates), so they will run without new libraries (wherever it is possible) on a stable Debian distribution. I recommend you to pick out single backports which … text/html 2008-04-27T08:09:19+00:00 Alexander Wirt http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions&rev=1209283759&do=diff1209283759 Using backports.org is very simple: 1. Add this line deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free to your /etc/apt/sources.list. 2. Run apt-get update 3. All backports are deactivated by default. If you want to install something from backports run: