On 13 Nov 1998, Daniel E. Hollis wrote: > --- "M.C. Vernon" wrote: --- > On 12 Nov 1998, Daniel E. Hollis wrote: > > I mucked up my package list. I'm trying to install kde and xfree86, the > > stable versions. One of the 2 required, so I thought, a xlibc _unstable_ > > version. I connected to the local debian distribution ftp site and got the > > unstable directory listings. Now, dselect wants to upgrade _everything_ to > the > > unstable versions. And to install new software, I can only get dselect to > > choose unstable versions. I'd ideally love to chose something like > > "install/upgrade stable only" but no such choice exists. I'm willing to go > > back and build a new package list form the ftp site, but I don't want to go > and > > delete something that conceivably could be keeping track of currently > installed > > packages. What should I do? > > Either: > > a) use dpkg to install the programs you want from slink by hand > b) place all the other packages on hold. > --- End of Quoted Text --- > > This almost answers my question. I have tried to put the unstable packages > on hold, but I need to install other packages that x depends on. dselect > won't > let me install the stable verisons of currently uninstalled packages, because > the unstable versions have higher version numbers. dselect only gives me the > choice of keeping the package uninstalled or installing the slink version. I > would, if this were a single package, d/l the stable release and dpkg it > individually. However, I'm trying to install xfree and kde, and my system is > 2/3 installed, so I really want to avoid installing the remaining 1/3 via > individual packages.
Hmmm.... if you want X from slink, I would suggest using all the packages it depends on from slink, as the slink X is significantly different from the hamm X. > My question is, how do I get my package list of stable packages back? I > image what I want to do is delete the local list of available packages. I'm > leary of deleting any dpkg list, since that could be a quick way into breaking > the system. And I certainly don't want to delete the list of packages I have > already installed. Point it at your hamm mirror/CD/pile of floppies/, and run update again. HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
