[SOLVED] About LMDE repositories and softwares
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 1:10 pm
First, I'm sorry if this question is asked before but I just can't find it from searching this forum and google. I'm now a Linux Mint 14 Nadia user and planning to test out the Debian based version of Linux Mint. But there are some things that I don't understand about the softwares in LMDE based on what I read in http://packages.linuxmint.com/list.php?release=Debian that most of the packages are older than what I have now in LM14. For instance, I'm now having some unofficial PPAs for some softwares I like VLC-stable-daily, Mozilla-Next, Hotot-team, cairo-dock, caffeine. Those are my most used softwares that I can't live without and some of them are not even available in LMDE repositories (caffeine, hotot, and cairo-dock; correct me if I'm wrong because I really never used debian before). I saw that the Mozilla is still in v17 which I'm now already in v19 on my LM14.
And based on what I read in LMDE FAQ in this forum, it says that we are adviced to not adding any PPA which is specially made for Ubuntu. So what can I do to have my needs for them? And i know some of u may think that I have to just compile those packages from source, I think I won't. The problem is I don't want to browse for their website everytime and compile it again and again as it will require a lot of efforts for a newbie like me. I want to just do a apt-get update & apt-get upgrade commands to get latest packages for what I use everyday (I don't need all, just those I've mentioned above).
I apology once again if I wrote something wrong here and anything, but I really don't mean any harm. Thanks in advance for those who can help me with my questions
And based on what I read in LMDE FAQ in this forum, it says that we are adviced to not adding any PPA which is specially made for Ubuntu. So what can I do to have my needs for them? And i know some of u may think that I have to just compile those packages from source, I think I won't. The problem is I don't want to browse for their website everytime and compile it again and again as it will require a lot of efforts for a newbie like me. I want to just do a apt-get update & apt-get upgrade commands to get latest packages for what I use everyday (I don't need all, just those I've mentioned above).
I apology once again if I wrote something wrong here and anything, but I really don't mean any harm. Thanks in advance for those who can help me with my questions