Kent West hat gesagt: // Kent West wrote:
> If I go into the Method option of dselect and change my ftp source from
> stable to unstable, in order for me to download one package (gnome), will
> dselect try to download everything that's got a newer version to what I've
> got installed?
>
> In other words, how do I just get gnome (and its dependents) without
> messing up my hamm system and/or what dselect looks for in the future?
Install and configure apt-get.
Then to install e.g. the gnome midnight commander gmc from the gnome
packages just type:
$ apt-get install gnome
The great thing about apt is: It automatically checks and solves dependancies
even when used from the command line like this. You end with all the
necessary packages from gnome installed to run gmc because apt-get
downloads and installs them for you.
I always hated the "dpkg -i pack.deb" method when I had to download a lot
of packages manually to reach this goal.
APT RULEZ!
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