Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes: On Thursday 14 August 2003 03:00, Norman Walsh wrote: > > I've recently upgraded to "unstable" (silly me, perhaps). > > > > I don't know if it's related or not, but my XIG AccelleratedX > > driver > > > has stopped working. So I wanted to give the XFree 86 4.3 drivers > > another try. (I've recovered my system with the 4.2 drivers in > > unstable.) > > > > So putting > > > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian ../project/experimental main > > contrib non-free > > > > in /etc/apt/source.list gets me the experimental drivers. > > > > But when I try to install, for example, xserver-xfree86 it says I > > have the most recent version. > > > > Given that xserver-xfree86 exists in both the 'unstable' and the > > 'experimental' versions, how do I get apt-get to do the right > > thing? > > apt-get install -t experimental xserver-xfree86 > > but that won't upgrade all xfree packages, you'll have to get the > list by yourself... Yep. > ... or tell your system that experimental is the default release, by > adding in your /etc/apt/apt.conf the following line : > APT::Default-Release "experimental"; Hmm seems quite dangerous to me to use experimental defaultly. You'd rather use the former solution using the -t switch. zeDek -- "I must've seen it in a USENET posting; that's sort of like hearsay evidence from Richard Nixon..." Blair Houghton
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