Do you do apt-get update first? Doesn't apt get confused afterwards about what the most recent version of each package is--for example looking for the woody versions?
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 01:02:15AM -0600, montefin wrote: > Ross, > > I've done what you're describing with apt-get. > > I have the woody sources in sources.list, but commented out until I want > a single package. > > Then I uncomment the woody lines and do... > > apt-get install <single package name> > > And it just gets the most up to date version which is usually in woody. > For instance, Postgresql 7. > > montefin > > > Ross Boylan wrote: > > > > I'm interested in pulling a package or two out of woody. sources.list > > doesn't seem to allow such fine-grained control. > > > > What's the usual way of doing this? > > > > By the way, I've also taken Helix desktop, which I understand means my > > system is pretty woody anyway, though it's trying to be potato. > > > > I'm interested in the zope 2.2 packages and aaalib.. which helix's > > gimp needs. > > > > Thanks.
