#1 2017-09-29 11:27:49

nicholasalipaz

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Installing a more current versoin of Network Manager

Network Manager in Debian is pretty old, is there any way to upgrade it without breaking a lot of stuff and creating a Franken-Debian nightmare?

The specific feature I am after in a later Network Manager is hiding of virtual interfaces. I use docker for development and my Network Manager menu always looks ridiculous. So if there is a solution to that then maybe that would tide me over until we reach a more current version in stretch.

Thanks!

Bearded_Blunder

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Re: Installing a more current versoin of Network Manager

You could alwats try backporting YMMV but it's worked for me in the past where I've needed features a package in stable didn't provide (veracrypt support in cryptsetup.. + others).

Since that's following "official" debian wiki stuff it won't be "Franken-Debian"   Assuming it builds.

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nicholasalipaz

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Re: Installing a more current versoin of Network Manager

Due to dependencies of later versions of Network Manager I believe (however, I have not checked/tested) that would not work. I believe libnm and it's dependencies is the culprit.

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Re: Installing a more current versoin of Network Manager

I've hit that in the past and had to backport some depends too, you asked "is there a way?" not is there an easy way...
If a later version won't build against the libraries in Jessie, then likely an imported later version won't *work* without breaking stuff.
does substituting connman get you the functionality you want? or wicd?

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Re: Installing a more current versoin of Network Manager

Why not upgrade to stretch?

The version there isn't very crusty (for now).

Side note: **** me, isn't jessie's version ancient?

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nicholasalipaz

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Re: Installing a more current versoin of Network Manager

Thanks, all good suggestions, I will look into it and see if I can come up with a good solution.