On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 08:56:31PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > I've installed apt-get. It works great . . but. (You knew there was > a "but" coming, right?) > > If I want to upgrade one package, e.g. icewm, to the version in > unstable,
Don't upgrade one only package from potato because potato depends on glibc2.1 and some packages on perl5.005. >the only way the man page seems to permit would be to edit > /etc/apt/sources.list so apt would look for *everything* in unstable, > install that one package, then re-edit the file . . . which would also > require running "apt-get update" twice, right? You can get some hinst from /usr/doc/apt/users-guide.html. > > The man page makes it clear that you can't give apt a version number, > so is there any other way to tell it "I just want this one package > from unstable, not everything."? > > For that matter, what if I wanted an *older* version for some reason? > Would I have to specify that in sources.list as well? dpkg -i ... your friend :) Mirek
