On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 12:08:02AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > The most recent libcurl2/curl in SID breaks gotmail. > So I put it on hold and kept the N-1 version. > > But now I have to put openoffice.org-bin and the rest of > openoffice.org on hold, because it needs the newest libcurl2. > > How can I go ahead and update to the latest libcurl2 and openoffice > in my *main* dpkg, but just tell gotmail to use the N-1 version > of libcurl2? I guess the N-1 version will just have to be unpacked > but not installed.
No, unpacked-but-not-configured packages overwrite the previous version. You'll probably have to build libcurl2 N-1 from source, stick it in /usr/local or something, and use LD_LIBRARY_PATH to get gotmail to use it. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]