Re: bzr and bzrtools packages

[Tim Cutts <timc@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

On 14 Jun 2009, at 3:18 pm, Alexander Wirt wrote:

> Tom Metro schrieb am Thursday, den 11. June 2009:
>
> > I have:
> > deb     http://www.backports.org/debian   lenny-backports main  
> > contrib
> > non-free
> >
> > in my sources.list, and recently installed the bzr package, but  
> > noticed
> > I received version 1.5, instead of 1.13, which appears to be the  
> > latest
> > in the backports.org repository:
> > http://backports.org/debian/pool/main/b/bzr/
> What about reading the instructions [1]?:
>
> sudo apt-get -s -t lenny-backports install bzr
> ....
> Inst bzr (1.13.1-1~bpo50+1 Backports.org archive:None/lenny-backports)

Or:

sudo aptitude install bzr/lenny-backports

also works.

Remember you can also use:

apt-cache policy bzr

to find out which various versions of a package you can see, and which  
will be installed by default.

Tim


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