> What I am trying to do is install the latest version of the sawfish > window manager. It resides in the unstable section. The problem is > that I want to install only what is required from the unstable base. I > tried pressing "R" and "D" so that only the packages I selected would be > installed, but I got a ton of dependencies.
You have two options: 1) apt-get update ; apt-get --show-upgraded install sawfish; assuming that /etc/apt/sources.list points to unstable. This will show you which packages will be upgraded, but I suspect there will be many of them ... 2) Try compiling the unstable package for stable base: cd /usr/src (or /usr/local/src) apt-get update ; apt-get --compile source sawfish assuming that /etc/apt/sources.list contains deb-src entries for unstable. However, this might require that you first compile some other packages from unstable before sawfish compiles. Have a look at Built-Depends in /usr/src/PKG/debian/control. -Igor Mozetic
