Re: upgrading just one "stable" package to "testing" version

[Toby Thain <toby@telegraphics.com.au>]

On Tuesday, March 19, 2002, at 05:17 AM, Jason Lim wrote:

> > On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 21:11:20 +1100, Toby Thain wrote:
> > > spaz:~# apt-get update
> >
> > > spaz:~# apt-get install apt
> > > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > > Sorry, apt is already the newest version
> > > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not
> upgraded.
> > That's strange. Stable has apt 0.3.19; testing has apt 0.5.4. This
> should
> > have worked. Perhaps apt is among the "5 not upgrade" packages, for 
> > some
> > reason? You could work around this by installing the new apt (and its
> > dependencies) through "dpkg".
>
> There is a simple way... do apt-get -v
>
> What is the output? What version does it report?

spaz:~# apt-get -v
apt 0.3.19 for i386 compiled on May 12 2000  21:17:27
spaz:~#


> Then we'll know all.
>
>
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