On 05 Sep 2000, Nate Amsden wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > On 05 Sep 2000, Dale L . Morris wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > > I am currently running 4.73 Netscape from potato and it works > > > fine. But when I do the apt-get upgrade it ignores the netscape > > > packages for 4.75. Anyone know why? > > > > > > > [snip] > > > > How do you get to 4.73? I got 4.06 when I upgraded slink to potato. > > I have upgraded subsequently via proposed updates but this has not > > yielded 4.73. > > i found upgrading from slink to potato yielded many many non upgraded > packages, the system would say it is up to date but if i did a manual > install (xchat comes to mind) apt-get install <program> apt would > realize that the program is outdated and upgrade it. odd!! happened on > every machine i upgraded. > > nate >
Thanks for reply. Now the question is, which netscape package(s) should I ask for? When I upgraded via proposed-updates I got some version of netscape-base4.75 (can't remember which), but there are numerous netscape packages on the site and I don't know which to tell apt-get to fetch. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.2 (Windows-free zone) Book Reviews: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/bookreviews/ Skeptical articles: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/freethinker/ "To be forced by desire into any unwarrantable belief is a calamity." I.A. Richards
