On Thursday 24 November 2005 01:07 pm, Bernard Hurley wrote: > On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 00:48 -0600, S L Raymond wrote: > > I'm running Ubuntu Breezy and for some reason, even after apt-get > > update, 2.2 is the latest version it will fetch. > > You probably have apt set up so that it only knows about Debian stable > packages. The latest version in Debian stable is 2.2.6. To find out what > versions you computer knows about run: > > apt-cache showpkg lilypond | head > > (The head is needed to stop everything scrolloing off the screen). When > I do this I get (slightly abbreviated): > > 2.6.3-9 (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.uk.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-i386_Packages)_Packages) > (/var/lib/dpkg/status) > 2.4.5-2 (/var/lib/apt/lists/demudi.agnula.org_packages_demudi_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages) > 2.2.6-3 (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.uk.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages) > > This tells me that my computer knows about versions 2.6.3, 2.4.5 and > 2.2.6 (the number after the hyphen is a Debian package version). The > (/var/lib/dpkg/status) tells me which version I have installed on the > machine - in my case 2.2.6. If it were not installed I could run: > > apt-get lilypond=2.6.3-9 > > If you computer does not know about version 2.6.3 then try adding > something like: > > deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib > > to /etc/apt/sources.list > > then run "apt-get update" and try running apt-cache again. You may find > you need to upgrade other packages into the "testing" package stream. > Apt will tell you that when you try to upgrade lilypond. It may also > tell you that it wants to delete certain packages - the usual solution > is to upgrade these as well - if you still need them. If you need to do > a lot of this it will take you a ling time using apt-cache and apt-get > and you would be better off using aptitude (of course you will need to > install that if you don'r have it!)
This is a great summary of how to do this, but there is one more thing that can be done to stay out of trouble: $ apt-get -s install lilypond=xxxx The -s is for simulate. If you always do this before installing anything for real it can save you some surprises, and surprises are hardly ever good. daveA -- Free download of technical exercises worth a lifetime of practice: "Dynamic Guitar Technique": http://www.openguitar.com/instruction.html email: "David Raleigh Arnold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>|<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Full name in address field is needed to pass filter) _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
