Re: [tlug] Ubuntu Trusty (14.04) issues

[steve <sjs@example.com>]

On 05/06/2014 10:31 AM, Raymond Wan wrote:
> I wonder if there is any Linux distribution that allows you to keep
> your system at one version but upgrade software like your web browser
> in an isolated way such that all of its dependencies are put somewhere
> so as not to disturb the rest of the system?  Though this goes against
> software development, it would make upgrading far more optional!  :-)
I think that's exactly what they do.

If there's an app you depend on and you want to upgrade something 
critical to it, shouldn't you be able to do something similar: ie, 
package the executable with the libraries it depends on (which could be 
many) in a directory and use an sh script to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to 
access your local .so's?

Steve S.