Re: Installing packages from unstable version

On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 09:33:58PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Rather than a verbose answer, just look at my sources.list and > apt.conf > > To install Galeon from unstable the command is: > > apt-get install galeon/unstable. The one thing that I find particularly annoying with this setup is th

Re: Installing packages from unstable version

On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 20:26:09 -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > Try doing "apt-get -d install libgtk2.0" only. Don't do "upgrade"; > that's for updating all/most of your installed packages. I know that. But as I sometimes to an upgrade, I wanted to see if modifying sources.list didn't break things

Re: Installing packages from unstable version

On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 02:05:29AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 14:25:54 -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > > Leave off the hyphenated version number which is not part of the > > "proper" package name. > > > > $ apt-get install libgtk2.0 > > It doesn't work. ? > I've now

Re: Installing packages from unstable version

On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 21:33:58 +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Rather than a verbose answer, just look at my sources.list and > apt.conf Thanks, this is what I wanted. This is strange that apt.conf hadn't been set when I installed the Debian/testing distribution. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Installing packages from unstable version

* Vincent Lefevre ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020414 20:12]: > On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 14:25:54 -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > > Leave off the hyphenated version number which is not part of the > > "proper" package name. > > > > $ apt-get install libgtk2.0 > > It doesn't work. > > I've now modified the

Re: Installing packages from unstable version

On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 14:25:54 -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > Leave off the hyphenated version number which is not part of the > "proper" package name. > > $ apt-get install libgtk2.0 It doesn't work. I've now modified the sources.list as I've been told (I've *added* unstable versions of the l

Re: Installing packages from unstable version

On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 07:01:28PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > How can I install packages from the unstable version of the > distribution with apt-get? > > For instance, if I type "apt-get install libgtk2.0-0" or > "apt-get install libgtk2.0-0/unstable", I get an error > > E: Couldn't find pa

Re: Installing packages from unstable version

On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 07:01:28PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >How can I install packages from the unstable version of the >distribution with apt-get? > Rather than a verbose answer, just look at my sources.list and apt.conf To install Galeon from unstable the command is: apt-get install galeo

Installing packages from unstable version

How can I install packages from the unstable version of the distribution with apt-get? For instance, if I type "apt-get install libgtk2.0-0" or "apt-get install libgtk2.0-0/unstable", I get an error E: Couldn't find package libgtk2.0-0 -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web:

Re: making gnome2 packages from unstable install

On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 17:04:02 -0900 (AKST) Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to do this without breaking all the existing gnome > packages? I thought the point of packages having names like gnome2 was to > allow things to coexist somehow... no... there's no way... it would be pos

making gnome2 packages from unstable install

Is there a way to do this without breaking all the existing gnome packages? I thought the point of packages having names like gnome2 was to allow things to coexist somehow... Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always."

packages from unstable

Hello all, I read on a list archive that Samba 2.2.x was put in the unstable packages collection. How can I try to install it? I updated via dpkg and it brought me the 2.0.7-3 version. I'm on potato 2.2 rev 3 Thanks Bye Adri

Re: Can I get new, but *not* updated packages from "unstable"?

On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 08:50:25AM -0400, Evan Van Dyke wrote: > Joe Emenaker wrote: > > > > For a long time, I've had a policy of updating my servers from stable *and* > > unstable because I wanted the newly packaged stuff but also, more > > importantly, because I wanted bug fixes for security ho

Re: Can I get new, but *not* updated packages from "unstable"?

On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 08:50:25AM -0400, Evan Van Dyke wrote: > Joe Emenaker wrote: > Potato is based on glibc2.1. Slink is glibc2.0... so from what I've read > on many other posts here, it's a BadIdea(tm) to try and mix these due > to the different glibc dependencies. Errr..not exactly. As long

Re: Can I get new, but *not* updated packages from "unstable"?

Joe Emenaker wrote: > > For a long time, I've had a policy of updating my servers from stable *and* > unstable because I wanted the newly packaged stuff but also, more > importantly, because I wanted bug fixes for security holes asap... without > having to wait for the next official release of Deb

Can I get new, but *not* updated packages from "unstable"?

For a long time, I've had a policy of updating my servers from stable *and* unstable because I wanted the newly packaged stuff but also, more importantly, because I wanted bug fixes for security holes asap... without having to wait for the next official release of Debian. Well, it seems that bug f