In another thread ("sound problems on debian"), I explained that my new etch
installation didn't drive my Intel onboard sound card. It was suggested that
I try upgrading from source from alsa-1.0.13 to alsa-1.0.14. I've done this
and have sound now but wonder what kind of pain will be ahead with the
package-management system.

What I did was to put in alsa-base 1.0.14-rc1 from Debian experimental and
alsa-lib and alsa-driver 1.0.14rc2 from source. I made deb files of these
two but couldn't install them that way because of conflicts. I tried
checkinstall from unstable as well as dpkg -i.

I'm a little worried what sort of mess I'll have when it comes time to
upgrade any of the debian packages involved. dpkg still shows libasound2
1.0.13-1 installed, but many of those files were overwritten by the install
of alsa-lib from source. alsa-driver replaced files from the package
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686 and a couple of others. I did save archives of the
original files but don't know if that will be enough.

Am I likely to have a mess on my hands upgrading any of the packages
involved? Thanks.


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On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 04:14:48PM -0500, Steve Kleene wrote:
>
> What I did was to put in alsa-base 1.0.14-rc1 from Debian experimental and
> alsa-lib and alsa-driver 1.0.14rc2 from source. I made deb files of these
> two but couldn't install them that way because of conflicts. I tried
> checkinstall from unstable as well as dpkg -i.
>
> I'm a little worried what sort of mess I'll have when it comes time to
> upgrade any of the debian packages involved. dpkg still shows libasound2
> 1.0.13-1 installed, but many of those files were overwritten by the install
> of alsa-lib from source. alsa-driver replaced files from the package
> linux-image-2.6.18-3-686 and a couple of others. I did save archives of the
> original files but don't know if that will be enough.
>
> Am I likely to have a mess on my hands upgrading any of the packages
> involved? Thanks.
>
That depends. If you provide the exact error messages from dpkg when
you try to install with 'dpkg -i', then we can probably suggest how to
rebuild your .debs so that they will work with your setup.

Regards,

-Roberto

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On 02/25/07 15:14, Steve Kleene wrote:
> In another thread ("sound problems on debian"), I explained that my new etch
> installation didn't drive my Intel onboard sound card. It was suggested that
> I try upgrading from source from alsa-1.0.13 to alsa-1.0.14. I've done this
> and have sound now but wonder what kind of pain will be ahead with the
> package-management system.
>
> What I did was to put in alsa-base 1.0.14-rc1 from Debian experimental and
> alsa-lib and alsa-driver 1.0.14rc2 from source. I made deb files of these
> two but couldn't install them that way because of conflicts. I tried
> checkinstall from unstable as well as dpkg -i.
>
> I'm a little worried what sort of mess I'll have when it comes time to
> upgrade any of the debian packages involved. dpkg still shows libasound2
> 1.0.13-1 installed, but many of those files were overwritten by the install
> of alsa-lib from source. alsa-driver replaced files from the package
> linux-image-2.6.18-3-686 and a couple of others. I did save archives of the
> original files but don't know if that will be enough.
>
> Am I likely to have a mess on my hands upgrading any of the packages
> involved? Thanks.

Yes, you are.

Getting your packages installed will/should solve that, though.

What error messages were you getting?


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