Can I install 12.04 packages on 11.10?
- by Jason R
I'm running 11.10 and am trying to apply the fix to this bug in Empathy, shown at the very bottom. There is an updated package for the offending component available in the Precise repository, and someone even posted a backported .deb package for use on Oneiric. However, when I try to install that package, it seems to have a dependency on a package that isn't available for Oneiric:
(Reading database ... 254452 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace telepathy-indicator 0.0.7-0ubuntu1 (using telepathy-indicator_0.1.1-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement telepathy-indicator ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of telepathy-indicator:
telepathy-indicator depends on libunity9 (>= 3.4.6); however:
Package libunity9 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing telepathy-indicator (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
telepathy-indicator
The person who posted the backported telepathy-indicator package indicated that it depends upon libunity-dev-5.0; the latest version in the Oneiric repositories is a 4.0 vintage. I also can't find a libunity9 available for Oneiric, so I'm wondering: is it possible to just add the Precise repository to my list and pull the updated packages from there, or should I not expect that they would operate correctly?