On Dec 2, 2003, at 7:50 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote:
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 04:52, Barry Hawkins wrote:
The problem is that the xserver and xfree86 packages for 4.3.0.1 are
no longer appearing in dselect. An initial install as I was learning
to use dselect ended up with mostly 4.3.0.1 packages but some 4.2.1
packages, so I purged all of the x-related packages. Afterward, only
a
couple of library packages like libmesa and another one from the
4.3.0.1 packages in experimental are showing up. Any idea what I
might
be doing wrong?
You're using dselect. :) Seriously though, if
apt-cache policy xserver-xfree86
shows the experimental version, I recommend trying an APT frontend like
aptitude.
Michel,
Thanks for the suggestion. Here is the output of the command you
suggested:
localhost:~# apt-cache policy xserver-xfree86
xserver-xfree86:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 4.2.1-14
Version Table:
4.3.0-0pre1v4 0
1 ftp://ftp.debian.org main/binary-powerpc/ Packages
1 http://http.us.debian.org ../project/experimental/main
Packages
4.2.1-14 0
500 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages
500 ftp://debian.mirrors.pair.com unstable/main Packages
So, when one has two versions of a package, how does said one imply
the installation of a particular version? Also, what are those
integers prefacing the URIs beneath the version numbers, 1 and 500? I
have to wait until tonight to install aptitude. Is it really that much
better at dealing with my issue than dselect?
Diligently,
--
Barry C. Hawkins
All Things Computed
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