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update xenial nanomsg to latest

Asked by Ahmed Messaoud

We have a need to update the nanomsg package for xenial to a later version of nanomsg (1.1.5). What is required for us to update the package?

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

Manfred Hampl suggests this article as an answer to your question:
FAQ #3037: “no rolling release”.

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Best Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#2

What you could try is manually downloading and installing the package libnanomsg5 (and when needed also nanomsg-utils) in the version that is provided for Ubuntu disco on your xenial system.
There are no complicated dependencies, so there are good chances that this works.

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Ahmed Messaoud (ahmedbm) said : 		#3

Great suggestion! I added the Ubuntu disco repo and added an apt policy to ignore all packages EXCEPT for libnanomsg5 which worked as expected :)

Sadly though, anyone installing my Debian package will be required to add the source+policy to get it to install. Is it bad practice to have debian packages update the sources and add apt policy?

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Ahmed Messaoud (ahmedbm) said : 		#4

Thanks Manfred Hampl, that solved my question.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#5

There is a much better way to provide libnanomsg5 for xenial: Create a PPA.
see https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA