Re: [LUG] Upgrading - or not ... (Debian)

[Gordon Henderson <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 9 Jan 2012, Gibbs wrote:

> On 09/01/12 14:02, Steven Côté wrote:
> >         Even though you're on Debian you could probably just safely
> >         use the PPA
> >
> >         - not normally recommended I know, but it's only a small
> >         single purpose
> >         PPA so you should get away with it (I've just tried this on Debian
> >         Squeeze and it worked fine).
> >
> >
> >     What's a PPA? (Google is retuning too many hits that don't mean
> >     anything in this context)
> >
> >
> > I forget what the acronym actually stands for, but they're basically add-on 
> > repositories for specialist packages. In this case, there's a PPA 
> > maintained for the latest stable build of Banshee for Ubuntu.
> >
> > https://launchpad.net/~banshee-team/+archive/ppa 
> > <https://launchpad.net/%7Ebanshee-team/+archive/ppa>
> >
> > Hope that helps.
> PPA = Personal Package Archive

Thanks. Will have a look.

For now, things are quiet - the hunt is still on for a new mp3 player 
though!

Gordon

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