I'm new to Debian, and apt. I started out with a set of "Potato" CDs (why do you have to lie to the website to get ISOs?) and have dorked around with apt-get to the point that I think I have all unstable packages. Sort of.
The problem is if I try to upgrade my X thus: # apt-get install xfree86-common/unstable I get: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Selected version 4.1.0-8 (Debian:unstable) for xfree86-common Sorry, xfree86-common is already the newest version. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. But KDE clearly (?) states I am running 3.3.6-11, which is the stable package, AFAIK. I get the same thing if I omit the "/unstable". I check and I only have one "X" binary on the system (updatedb;locate X | grep -e 'X$') so it isn't that I have both and am running the old one as far as I can tell. Where am I going wrong? -Peter PS: My /etc/apt/sources.list looks like: # See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs # CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool. #deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free #deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free #deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free # Uncomment if you want the apt-get source function to work #deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free #deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-3 (20010427)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-2 (20010427)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20010427)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
