On Monday 18 April 2011 09:38:52 James Allsopp wrote: > Done, that and still get the same error; full output is > Hawaiian:/home/ja# aptitude install nvidia-kernel-dkms > No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. > Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. > W: Did not understand pin type * > > I think the pin type error is where I tried to force grub to not upgrade > to grub2, > > Thanks, > Jim >
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