[Pkg-octave-devel] Re: a new octave book and octave based course

[Thomas Weber]

Hi, 

Am Donnerstag, den 02.11.2006, 17:32 +0100 schrieb Rafael Laboissiere:

> > If not, how difficult would be to recompile the 2.9 sources in debian
> > stable?

It might be easier to setup an unstable chroot on your system; you will
need some space on the partition and root rights.

# cdebootstrap --arch amd64 sarge ./sid http://amd64.debian.net/debian-amd64/

This creates an amd64 chroot of sarge in the subdirectory sid/. For
every other architecture, every Debian mirror will do.

Then
# cp /etc/hosts sid/etc/
# cp /etc/hostname sid/etc/
# cp /etc/resolv.conf sid/etc/
which gives you a working network in the chroot.

# chroot sid
# apt-setup (this is done in the chroot alreay!)

Edit the chroot's sources.list as needed (especially use sid or etch as
wanted) and run aptitude later. 

	Thomas