Patrick Lane said: > Peter Hutnick wrote: >>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". > it should look something a little more like this: > > deb http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ sid main non-free contrib deb-src > http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ sid main non-free contrib > > -or- > > deb http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib > deb-src http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib > > > > You have it pointing to all 3 different flavors of Debian. Comment out the > others, leave unstable uncommented, run apt-get update, and try again. > > --Patrick
No effect: # grep -v ^# /etc/apt/sources.list | grep . 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 # apt-get install xfree86-common/unstable 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. # apt-get install xfree86-common Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Sorry, xfree86-common is already the newest version. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Anyone else have any ideas?
