On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 10:53 +1000, Edward Stow wrote:
I may not have explain it well: the package in Debian is a pure 64 bits package.
I can not understand the reasons for your answer or the reason of this thread: in an Debian lenny/sid amd64 machine: "apt-get install squeak-vm" just works.
Yes but adding lenny to /etc/apt/sources.list as well as etch is a risky proposition for the health of my etch system.
No, that is ok. Do
echo 'APT::Default-Release "etch"' >> /etc/apt/apt.conf
than it only installs packages from etch. If you do
apt-get -t lenny install ...
then it pulls the package and all of the dependencies from lenny channel. This way you leverage between having a stable system and having a system which fulfills actual needs. Do a search about package pinning as well if you are interested.
Norbert