Re: managing packages

> And I'm also looking for documentation about `aptitude' because I've heard > that there is such way to tell aptitude to install a package from a specific > distribution there is really good documentation in /usr/share/doc/aptitude however, that is really comprehensive. you probably just want to

managing packages

hi, I'm wanting to upgrade the ssh pacakge which is quite too old now, with the version from backport. after writing the /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release a=sarge Pin-Priority: 500 Package: openssh Pin: release a=sarge-backports Pin-Priority: 999 I've try a: apt-