Backports Dapper

[Scott]

Donn wrote:
> Hi,
> I just tripped over a ref to 'backports' in another post and I thought I'd ask 
> about it.
>  I'm still on Dapper and it's getting crufty. I don't have time right now to 
> fight with a new installation (and all the backing up ...) but I would rather 
> like to have GTK+ > 2.10 and all it's little pals. 
>  Is there some magical way to do this on Dapper via apt? I have tried 
> compiling it all but I only get part-way before running into problems that 
> I'm not savvy enough to figure out.
To get the backports you need to adjust your repository sources.  The 
easiest way to do this is by running

kdesu kwrite /etc/apt/sources.list

from the command line then removing any #'s that you see beside the 
backports address.  It should look something like this:

deb http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports main restricted 
universe multiverse

But, it will say Dapper instead of Gutsy.  After that, save it then do 
apt-get update and then apt-get upgrade.  You will probably get a large 
amount of updates, so it could take a while to upgrade.

-- 
Your friend,
Scott

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