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Alan Pope wrote: > 2008/12/16 Grant Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >> I realise this... but my question revolves around trying to install a >> newer version of network-manager and network-manager-gnome... >> > You could of course compile it from source, thus negating the need to > upgrade half your system. You can try the upgrade to 8.10 again and we > can help you get through any issues you encounter? > I could do. I first got into Debian to get out of dependency hell (with RPM based distros of the time) and the need to compile from source. > The big problem with compiling from source, using out-of-line repos or > manually installing packages is that you're no longer getting > automatic security updates. > I remember the problems upgrading various individual packages from Mandrake 9.1's to 9.2's could cause, especially if some things (particularly libraries) had been installed from source in the mean-time. I wonder how do Slackware users get on. ;-) :-D > What exactly was the problem with upgrading to 8.10? > I forget what it broke, but from an almost clean-installed 8.04, the upgrade to 8.10 knackered the desktop - fonts were way too large, to the point where the Applications, Places and System menu were replaced with a mess; it kept getting confused as to which graphics-drivers to use (8.04 detects an nVidia card and installs the 'nvidia-new' package (when a GeForce2 should use 'nvidia-old' (or whatever it's called)), 8.10 seems to correctly detect it and use the right one - but an upgrade seemed to confuse it), etc. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html