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best way to install package from wheezy on squeeze

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http://serverfault.com – I want to use doxygen on my Debian Squeeze server, but I need the version from Debian Wheezy because this apparently contains the bugfix I need. It's not in backports -- check packages.debian.org/search?suite=squeeze-backports&searchon=names&keywords=doxygen (I'm new here and wasn't allowed this as a proper link!) I tried adding Wheezy to my sources.list file and running apt-get install -t wheezy doxygen but it wants to install too much from wheezy; This is a production server so can't afford this risk. I'm assuming that compiling from source is going to want to compile all the res (HowTos)

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Submitted by dayu on 10/18/2011

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Recently Debian Linux version 7.0 ("Wheezy") released. This version shipped with many new features - improvements to multimedia support, improved security through hardening flags and the OpenStack suite and the Xen Cloud Platform to name a few. How do I upgrades from Debian Linux version 6.x.x (squeeze) to the latest version 7.0.0 wheezy using command line options?

The setup

I run a Debian Squeeze host that I use to build a multilanguage project (python, java, php...) and generate custom packages (debian and RPM) automatically (through jenkins)

The problem

The target distributions of those Debian packages are Etch, Lenny and Squeeze.

Almost all the major Linux distributions are using LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice. Today, it has been announced that Debian Squeeze too will get LibreOffice in the backports.LibreOffice has been available in Debian Wheezy and Debian Sid for a while now. But in the stable release, Debian Squeeze, it is not available.

I shall briefly describe my issue:

General situation:

I need to port Qt project from MS Visual Studio 2010 to Linux (Debian) In VS 2010 I got Qt ver. 4.8.1 in Debian Qt 4.6.1 this difference prevents me from porting, as some features are not present in 4.6.1.

In Debian I use stable Squeeze repository.

I'm running Debian Wheezy and my default Display Manager is gdm3, and I would like to replace it with lxdm the problem is that I'm trying to run # apt-get install lxde and it's not working, what I'm doing wrong?

My /etc/apt/sources.list is:

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Wheezy_ - Official Snapshot i386 DVD Binar$

deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian wheezy main deb-src http://ftp.br.debia

debian/knoppix sources.list 16 weeks 5 days ago

Knoppix is a Debian-based Linux live DVD.

I've liked the pre-installed packages in Knoppix so much, that I've installed it to disk. My question is about /etc/apt/sources.list

In Knoppix, the sources.list file has MANY repo links, it includes links for stable, testing, unstable and experimental (lenny, squeeze, wheezy, sid...etc), all uncommented.

debian/knoppix sources.list 16 weeks 5 days ago

Knoppix is a Debian-based Linux live DVD.

I've liked the pre-installed packages in Knoppix so much, that I've installed it to disk. My question is about /etc/apt/sources.list

In Knoppix, the sources.list file has MANY repo links, it includes links for stable, testing, unstable and experimental (lenny, squeeze, wheezy, sid...etc), all uncommented.

WheezyWith Linux 3.0 on its way, the Debian developers have decided to move the Debian Wheezy development from Linux 2.6 to Linux 3.0.Debian Wheezy is the successor to Debian Squeeze, which was was released earlier this year. Currently it is in development and is available from Sid.As I have mentioned in the earlier article, Linux 3.0 brings no changes to the API or the ABI.

I am trying to build dwm from source.

Grabbing the source doesn't work:

(28) $ apt-get source dwm Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information...