Re: apt-get source question

2006-07-31 Thread Pollywog
On Monday July 31, 2006 5:38 pm, Stephen Cormier wrote: > On Monday 31 July 2006 14:10, Pollywog wrote: > > I looked in the APT tutorial and also in a book but I could not find an > > answer to this problem. > > > > I want to get a source package from the "testing" release, not from > > "stable", s

Re: apt-get source question

2006-07-31 Thread John O'Hagan
On Tuesday 01 August 2006 03:10, Pollywog wrote: >[...] > I want to get a source package from the "testing" release, not from > "stable", so I did this: > > apt-get -t testing source > > It does not seem to work. Is there a way to do this without temporarily > modifying the sources.list in order

Re: apt-get source question

2006-07-31 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Monday 31 July 2006 14:10, Pollywog wrote: > I looked in the APT tutorial and also in a book but I could not find an > answer to this problem. > > I want to get a source package from the "testing" release, not from > "stable", so I did this: > > apt-get -t testing source > > It does not seem to

Re: apt-get source question

2006-07-31 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 05:10:38PM +, Pollywog wrote: > I looked in the APT tutorial and also in a book but I could not find an > answer > to this problem. > > I want to get a source package from the "testing" release, not from "stable", > so I did this: > > apt-get -t testing source > >

apt-get source question

2006-07-31 Thread Pollywog
I looked in the APT tutorial and also in a book but I could not find an answer to this problem. I want to get a source package from the "testing" release, not from "stable", so I did this: apt-get -t testing source It does not seem to work. Is there a way to do this without temporarily modi

apt-get source question

2000-12-19 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
This is an abbreviated re-post. My original posting is in the archives here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-0012/msg01267.html Is there a way to find out exactly from where apt-get is planning to fetch a particular package? The reason I need to know this is because of a bug in apt-get, found

apt-get source question

2000-12-08 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Is there a way to find out exactly from where apt-get is planning to fetch a particular package? The reason I need to know this is because of a bug in apt-get, found and reported by a few people before me, that goes something like this: --- Begin bug description - 1) I enter "

apt-get source question

2000-02-11 Thread Ron Farrer
Hello; Is there a way to do an "apt-get -f dist-upgrade" but have it download the source, build it, then install it? I can do this just fine specifying the package I want, but is there a way to do a complete upgrade? TIA, Ron -- === = Ronald Burnett Farrer = ===

Re: Apt-get source question

1999-08-26 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Apt-get source question Date: Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 09:17:18AM -0200 In reply to:Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira Quoting Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi Debian users, > anyone knows if with apt-get source package I c

Apt-get source question

1999-08-22 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, anyone knows if with apt-get source package I can see the new avaliable packages before get sourcing to checks if the pack age is it or doesn't exist? My problem is: I have a slink home box. First I installed apt 0.3.11 to get source potato package