Re: unable to use backports repos
Hi!
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* Leonardo Carneiro - Veltrac <lscarneiro@veltrac.com.br> [2010-02-22 21:10:26 CET]:
> TRYING TO UPDATE THE PACKAGE.
> kody:~# apt-get install smbclient
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> smbclient is already the newest version.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Right.
> FAIL. TRYING AGAIN, WITH BACKPORTS OPTION EXPLICIT
> kody:~# apt-get -t lenny-backports install smbclient
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
> required:
> libtalloc1
> Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
> The following extra packages will be installed:
> libcap2 libwbclient0 samba-common samba-common-bin
> Suggested packages:
> smbfs
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> libcap2 samba-common-bin
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is because updating the package would pull in further packages
from backports.
Without specifying the -t option apt won't try to pull in new packages
from that distribution and thus the dependency resolver doesn't find an
update option for you.
Hope that helps,
Rhonda
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