[Novalug] mint debian adventures

Derek LaHousse dlahouss@mtu.edu
Tue Feb 3 17:09:20 EST 2015


For what OS was the program compiled?  Even Debian and Ubuntu don't
have guaranteed binary compatibility.

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Bonnie Dalzell via Novalug
<novalug@firemountain.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Feb 2015, Roger W. Broseus wrote:
>
>> Bonnie,
>>
>> Might "pinning" help you? Ref: https://wiki.debian.org/AptPreferences
>>
> Thanks so much for the reference. I have learned so much from your help.
>
> Read the page. For someone like me who knows just enough to get themselves
> in trouble pinning is scary. The caution spooks me:
>
> "When using apt-pinning, you must ensure compatibility of packages by
> yourself since Debian does not guarantee it. Note that apt-pinning is
> completely optional, and Debian does not encourage its use without thorough
> consideration. "
>
> With LMDE the problem seems to be that the release I installed may have
> moved beyond the 32 bit libraries as they are deprecated and pinning seems
> to be used for back-porting from a more advanced release.
>
> However one of the things I have not done, which is pretty simple since I
> have lots of space on my system is to just install a 32 bit version of mint
> or xubuntu and test the program with it also.
>
> I am going to suggest to the program author that he consider mentioning this
> to his possible linux clients. Most people running linux (other than our
> Charlie) are probably in a situation where a second version of linux can be
> installed if needed to run some specialized program that is really needed.
> At least it is a lot easier to get documents, pictures etc between the two
> versions than by having different computers talk to each other.
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