Package management

[virginsnow at vfemail.net]

> From: Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net>
> Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 11:34:21 -0400
> Cc: gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org

>  $ apt-get source foo=<desired package number>
>  $ cd foo-<version number>
>  $ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
>  $ cd .. && dpkg -i foo-<version number>

I think you forgot to apt-get build-deps or whatever that OTHER debian
magic command is.

In Gentoo land, all we have to do is pick the version of python we want:

# emerge =dev-lang/python-2.4.2

and find something to do for 1/2 an hour.

In fact,

# ls -dl /usr/lib/python*
drwxr-xr-x  15 root root 17313 Mar 10  2006 /usr/lib/python2.3
drwxr-xr-x  19 root root 21465 Mar 14  2006 /usr/lib/python2.4

this system is already running 2.3 and 2.4 side-by-side.