azzid
December 14th, 2008, 06:18 PM
Today I figured would be a good day to try out Mediatomb (http://mediatomb.cc/) as a media supplier to my PS3. I connected to my Ubuntu server and tried to find mediatomb in my repositories with apt-cache search mediatomb Found nothing, so I figured I lacked some repo. Found some info on the mediatomb site http://mediatomb.cc/pages/download#debian_ubuntu on where apt-get should look for the software.
That was when I realized that the lines in sources.list are tied to a particular distribution. In my case it is dapper.
I also found a line added ages ago to make apt-get "webmin aware" which is intended for sarge.
Webmin has always worked/updated perfectly even though the source is tagged sarge.
Now to my problem, there is no dapper source for mediatomb, can I use another? Like feisty, gutsy or hardy? If so, which is better, hardy (newest) or feisty (closest to dapper)?
I tried adding the line: deb http://apt.mediatomb.cc/ gutsy main to my sources.list, and after doing apt-get update I could apt-cache search mediatomb and find what I wanted.
How safe/unsafe will it be to actually try the install?
Could one even change all the dappers in the sources.list to say hardy and use apt-get to update to that distribution?
Sincerely,
Mattias
That was when I realized that the lines in sources.list are tied to a particular distribution. In my case it is dapper.
I also found a line added ages ago to make apt-get "webmin aware" which is intended for sarge.
Webmin has always worked/updated perfectly even though the source is tagged sarge.
Now to my problem, there is no dapper source for mediatomb, can I use another? Like feisty, gutsy or hardy? If so, which is better, hardy (newest) or feisty (closest to dapper)?
I tried adding the line: deb http://apt.mediatomb.cc/ gutsy main to my sources.list, and after doing apt-get update I could apt-cache search mediatomb and find what I wanted.
How safe/unsafe will it be to actually try the install?
Could one even change all the dappers in the sources.list to say hardy and use apt-get to update to that distribution?
Sincerely,
Mattias