Re: [Jack-Devel] Basic install problem (jack 1.9.8, a deja vu problem?)
On 01/10/2012 08:02 PM, Henry W. Peters wrote:
> Apologies for basic question here:
You are looking for the debian-users mailing list.
> I used Debian Squeeze, have jack 1.9.6, wish to upgrade to jack 1.9.8,
> if possible...
Abandon Squeeze and update to sid (unstable). Everything is there. Or
tell your package manager to load some packages from unstable.
> I managed to install it once, but then realized I had 1.9.6 installed, &
> not supposed to have more than one version of jack at a time (apparently
> the install did not overwrite the earlier version)... tried to uninstall
> the older version via synaptic package manager... that "wanted" to
> uninstall all my jack aware programs: NO GOOD! I couldn't find the
> original jack 1.9.6 folder to an uninstall... & I did uninstall jack
> 1.9.8 successfully.
You're really looking for the debian-user mailing list.
$ man apt_preferences
or use Google how to pull in packages from unstable into squeeze. It
boils down to modifying your sources.list and then to say something like
$ apt-get install jackd2/unstable
That's it.
HTH
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