ModemManager update

[Alexander Dahl]

Hej hej,

Am Wed, Feb 02, 2022 at 06:28:56PM -0600 schrieb Artur Maciuszonek:
> Thank you I'll look into it.  I have to target an older version of Debian
> for now 10.11 Buster
> 
> On Wed, Feb 2, 2022, 6:05 PM Lech Perczak <lech.perczak at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hey Artur, Aleksander,
> >
> > I think your best bet is compiling .deb's based on source files
> > available from Sid:
> > https://packages.debian.org/sid/libqmi-glib5
> > https://packages.debian.org/sid/libmbim-glib4
> > https://packages.debian.org/sid/modemmanager
> >
> > These are IIRC the latest release, or very close to.  I managed to
> > successfully compile those against current stable (Bullseye) - they run
> > well. You'll have to compile them in that order, as usually don for
> > Debian packages, because of dependencies, and install respective -dev
> > packages to build the next ones.
> >
> > Installing packages directly from Sid won't work, as required glibmm is
> > too new for Bullseye.

I had to rebuild some newer packages in the past, and I found this
description on how to do it most helpful:

https://wiki.debian.org/BuildingTutorial

Greets
Alex