On Mon,14.Jul.08, 20:15:45, andy wrote: > Hi > > I am running Lenny/Testing and with the recent package updates a new set > of kernel headers was installed which has completely screwed my nVidia > driver settings. I had to reboot into 2-6-24 rather than the 2-6-25 in > order to get GDM to work. This I don't understand. AFAIK the headers are used only when compiling, how could updating them screw with nvidia driver *settings*? Maybe some other packages were upgraded as well? > When I went to change the sources list to enable me access the > appropriate nVidia driver from the Sid repositories using apt, there > were any number of packages that apt wanted to install as well, > alongside the nVidia. Of course. Apt will always want to install the newest package, but according to priority, see below. > What is the correct syntax to ensure that when I am wanting to install > the nVidia driver from Sid I limit it to *only* the package(s) I am > seeking rather than everything else that apt wants me to install? I've > spent the last 1/2 hour or Googling this and I can't find an answer. > Perhaps my search string is incorrect, but even so if anyone is able to > assist me, that would be great. Add a line like this: APT::Default-Release "testing"; to your /etc/apt/apt.conf. If the file doesn't exist you can create it. The you can use 'aptitude install -t my_sid_package' to install a package from sid, but also any required dependencies. You can check the setting works by running 'apt-cache policy'. You should get priority 990 for testing and 500 for unstable. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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