© Copyright John Leach <john@johnleach.co.uk>
Last updated: 17 January 2006
I provide some free Debian and Ubuntu packages. These are mostly packages that I've "backported" from the development distributions to the current stable distributions.
Backporting usually only really involves downloading the new source packages, tweaking (or just building) the dependencies and compiling. It's no voodoo magick and it's rather a dull operation, so I provide the finished packages online to save you the bother.
I do not vouch for their usefulness. In nearly every case they will have received very little testing by anyone. I do not cryptographically sign the packages either.
If you have problems with anything here, please don't contact the package maintainers. 9 times out of the 10, the problems you'll encounter will be due to the backporting process. Feel free to contact me though, maybe I can help.
In my Debian repository, it's likely to be networking daemons and console tools backported from unstable/testing to Sarge. I use Sarge and often like to play with the newer version of tools (or tools that aren't evening in sarge).
Some examples:
In my Ubuntu repository, it's likely to be some the fancy new GUI stuff from Dapper, backported to Breezy. I use Ubuntu on my desktops and sometimes am just too impatient to wait for the next version. Though I'm not impatient enough to upgrade to an unstable distribution on machines that I need to get work done on.
Some examples:
Just add the required line to your /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://johnleach.co.uk/downloads/ubuntu breezy backports
deb http://johnleach.co.uk/downloads/debian sarge backports
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