*- On 25 May, Patrick Colbeck wrote about "Slink - just want to upgrade XFree86 and Gnome" > Hi > > Well after several months in RedHat land (just to make it easy to keep > up with Gnome) I want to move back to Debian. I have some nice new > Debian 2.1 CDs but unfortunately 2.1 doesnt have XFree86 3.3.3 and I > need it on both my PCs (Matrox G200 and a laptop with a GL7555). > > The question is how do I set up dselect or apt just to upgrade XFree86 > and Gnome (and obviously any other dependencies). I don't want to > upgrade the whole installation to unstable just the two bits > mentioned. I would also like to retain the abilty to do an apt-get > update apt-get install to fixup the system with the latest patches > rather than for it to go get everything in unstable (which is what it > did when I just added the unstable dir to apt sources). >
I don't know about Gnome but another developer has put the X 3.3.3.1 debs on his site that are slink compatible(built with the sources used for the current potato X packages). Add the following to your sources.list deb http://ftp.netgod.net/ x/ -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------
