Re: Debian newbie: question on apt-get and sources.list

Hi, fixed it. just put the following line in sources.list: deb http://www.backports.org/debian stable/pre xfree86 The trick was putting the slash between stable and pre. Without that apt was looking at the 4.2 version of xfree86 Regds, Sanjay This email may contain confidential or privile

Re: Debian newbie: question on apt-get and sources.list

On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 02:54, Sanjay Chigurupati wrote: > > Hi, > I am trying to upgrade my x and the packages are available at: > > > http://www.backports.org/debian/dists/woody/pre/xfree86/ > > How do I specify the above in sources.list? > #deb http://www.backports.org/debian woody xfree86