[Wine] Re: unable to compile

[KGJ]

Hi,

CrashedAgain wrote:
> didn't use the official cvs because I didn'tknow about it. I'm not very
> experienced at this!
> I 'assume' apt took care of all dependencies for upgrading to unstable.
> I don't think this is a problem; I have always run mixed systems OK.
> The wine 20040121 was installed on this system from and old Ubuntu
> package. dpkg complained about a version conflict (libc6 was newer
> (3.somthing instaed of 2.2.90)) & libwine had to be installed with dpkg
> --force-conflict option but once install edit worked ok. apt wouldn't
> work any more though..it detected the conflict & wouldn't proceed until
> it was corrected. I don't think there is any way to install two
> versions of wine on a system using .deb packages.
Well to avoid those conflicts you could use http://backports.org/ .
Those packages are compiled to use the old packages that exist in stable.
You can use a chroot but I think that is more like having 2 systems at
the same time...


Greetings KGJ