I too am woefully ignorant of apt... You should not need however to put on hold any package installed using dpkg if the package that was obtained is a later release than listed in the available.
I have done this nearly countless times without ever using hold and no problem has ever come up. On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 10:04:00PM -0000, Pollywog wrote: > > On 22-Jul-99 Carl Fink wrote: > >> apt-get --install icewm > >> > >> should be all you need to do. > > > > No, actually it isn't, since that would install the version in > > *stable*. That's what I have installed now. What I'd like to do is > > install the version in *unstable*, without changing all my other > > packages to the unstable version. > > I don't know if there is a way to do that with apt-get, so I have just > downloaded the packages and installed them manually and then put the packages > on "hold" just to be safe. > > -- > Andrew > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
