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#1 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » How to get more up-to-date libraries & dev tools » 2018-11-05 19:05:17

Wow. I knew they existed but I've never done that. How do you keep from clobbering important libraries, etc. on the stable system? Is there some sort of protection built into synaptic to prevent this?

#2 Hardware & System Configuration » How to get more up-to-date libraries & dev tools » 2018-11-05 16:46:20

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I loaded up the latest XFCE Devuan, and it's running solidly. However, many of the packages I would like for development & libraries are several versions in back of what I need. For example, I can't build XFCE with the standard repos.

I'm not a Debian person, so I wouldn't know, is there a solution for this, like bleeding edge Debian repos somewhere where I can load the latest dev tools without crunching the OS? My solution would be to move to a different distro, but I didn't come here to diss Devuan. Every time in the past I've tried to fight the package management system, it hasn't ended well. So, I just want to know if a solution is already built into the Debian ecosystem that I just don't know about.

Thanks....k

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