Re: apt/sources.list error
On 22 Jan 2004, Haines Brown <brownh@hartford-hwp.com> wrote:
> but apt-get install fails to see the package:
>
> $ sudo apt-get install postfix=2.0
>
> To get the specified version, I had to specify it, but doing it this
> way results in the error that package not found. I tried 2.0.16
> also. It seems I'm not accessing the directory holding the package.
The settings in sources.list are correct. You can check this with
"apt-cache policy postfix". To install the backported version, you have to
specify either the complete version or an regexp. So both
"postfix=2.0.16-4.woody.1" and "postfix=2.0.16*" should work.
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Philipp Weis pweis@pweis.com
Freiburg, Germany http://pweis.com/
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