%% Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Unfortunately, it still hasn't migrated into testing, and when I tried >> to grab it from unstable it wanted to pull too many other unstable >> packages for me to be comfortable with.
bn> What often works for me in a situation like that is to use: bn> apt-get build-dep apt bn> apt-get -b source apt bn> and install the resulting package with dpkg -i. This will bn> probably install some -dev packages you might not otherwise need, bn> however, but you can often avoid massive upgrading. I thought of that. But then I took a closer look at the packages, and I apt-get remove'd the gnome-apt package (I don't much like it anyway--it _could_ be so great, but... it's not--yet, maybe) and after that the list of packages it wanted to update was much more reasonable, so I went ahead and did it. Thanks... -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> HASMAT--HA Software Mthds & Tools "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These are my opinions---Nortel Networks takes no responsibility for them.
