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[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <address@hidden>]

Marc Lalaude-Labayle wrote:

> HI,
> 
> i'm a lazy guy. So i went to the official debian experimental package
> list concerning editors :
> http://packages.debian.org/experimental/editors/
> 
> Then to the texmacs and common-texmacs packages list.
> 
> I donwloaded them on my desktop using the first link (i think it's a US
> based repository).
> 
> Then, i opened the common-texmacs package with gdebi (double-click does
> the trick).
> 

I think the apt-get's way is much easier. Since all you have to do is

apt-get update
apt-get install texmacs

> It told me there was a broken package : of course it's the
> "old" (understand official) package. I had to remove it and then i could
> install the texmacs 1.0.7 package.
> Actually, the best is to desinstall the old texmacs packages befor
> installing the new ones.

You do not need to deinstall the old texmacs package to install the new
version. It should just work. In fact this is the strength, the reason for
existence of apt.

hth
raju
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Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
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