joe golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: joe> I have downloaded the unstable version of abiword into my home joe> directory. I would like to install this on my testing system. I joe> believe all dependencies for the unstable version (0.9.0-0.1) are met. joe> joe> How do I do the install? Do i need to put unstable in the joe> sources.list? This is the only package I need from unstable. joe> joe> As root I copied the .deb into /var/cache/apt/archives and then tried joe> apt-get install abiword=0.9.0-0.1. joe> This gave me "E: Version '0.9.0-0.1' for 'abiword' was not joe> found."
You should completely ignore APT here, and just use dpkg directly to install the package file if you already have it. The .deb file doesn't need to be anywhere in particular. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
