On Wed, 08 Jun 2016, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Patrick Bartek: > > Need to upgrade claws-mail installed from regular repo to a newer > > version in wheezy-backports. I don't want to end up with two > > installed versions. Have done research, but have found nothing > > specific about this particular procedure. Would > > > > apt-get install -t wheezy-backports claws-mail=<newer version > > number> > > > > upgrade the old version or just install the new version along side > > the old. > > A Debian package can only ever be installed in one version at a time > on one machine. The package is defined by its name. In your example, > claws-mail is the package name and if it is already installed then it > will be upgraded. You can most probably leave out the version number > behind the package name. I would be surprised if wheezy-backports > contained more than one version of claws-mail. And even if that was > the case, apt-get would then pick the most recent version. > > > Or would it be easier to "remove" the old version keeping all the > > configs, etc., and install the new one from backports? I did this > > with LibreOffice a few years ago. Worked fine. > > Doesn't really make a difference. The state of your system should be > the same after either 'remove && install' or a simple 'install'.
I'll try "upgrading" without the version number. Yes, there's only one version of claws-mail in wheezy-backports, which is newer than the regular repo version. Thanks for clarifying. B
