Colin, sorry to be so dense about all this. I write now because I
succeeded by _not_ following your advice :-(, and so naturally would
like to understand why.
The actual path to the backported wood postfix file is:
http://people.debian.org/~hmh/woody/hmh/
postfix/postfix_2.0.16-4.woody.1_i386.deb
> > but apt-get install fails to see the package:
> >
> > $ sudo apt-get install postfix=2.0
>
> That's because the version is not "2.0", nor "2.0.16". It's
> "2.0.16-4.woody.1", or any of the others there. You can't leave bits off
> the end of the version number (and even if you could the syntax for
> doing so probably wouldn't be "=").
I tried
$ sudo apt-get install postfix_2.0.16-4.woody.1
$ sudo apt-get install postfix_2.0.16-4.woody.1_i386
$ sudo apt-get install postfix_2.0.16-4.woody.1*
But in no case was the file found. I reverted to the "=" and it worked
;-)
$ sudo apt-get install postfix=2.0.16-4.woody.1
Haines
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