Re: apt/sources.list error

[brownh@hartford-hwp.com (Haines Brown)]

Colin, sorry to be so dense about all this. I write now because I
succeeded by _not_ following your advice :-(, and so naturally would
like to understand why.

The actual path to the backported wood postfix file is:
		http://people.debian.org/~hmh/woody/hmh/ 
		postfix/postfix_2.0.16-4.woody.1_i386.deb

> > but apt-get install fails to see the package:
> > 
> >   $ sudo apt-get install postfix=2.0
> 
> That's because the version is not "2.0", nor "2.0.16". It's
> "2.0.16-4.woody.1", or any of the others there. You can't leave bits off
> the end of the version number (and even if you could the syntax for
> doing so probably wouldn't be "=").

I tried 

  $ sudo apt-get install postfix_2.0.16-4.woody.1
  $ sudo apt-get install postfix_2.0.16-4.woody.1_i386
  $ sudo apt-get install postfix_2.0.16-4.woody.1*

But in no case was the file found. I reverted to the "=" and it worked
;-)

  $ sudo apt-get install postfix=2.0.16-4.woody.1

Haines