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Re: Using apt_preferences?



John, This was my fault. I too am in a learning curve; in my case, how to 
migrate cleanly from drafting in a word processor to clean HTML. The 
``blank lines'' in my draft apt guide are default HTML line leading, not 
actual blank line separators.

Sorry for the confusion.

On 28 Oct 2001 at 19:53, John Gay wrote:

Date forwarded: 	Sun, 28 Oct 2001 15:04:22 -0500 (EST)
From:           	John Gay <johngay@eircom.net>
To:             	debian-kde@lists.debian.org
Subject:        	Using apt_preferences?
Date sent:      	Sun, 28 Oct 2001 19:53:32 +0000
Forwarded by:   	debian-kde@lists.debian.org

I wanted to update my testing system to KDE2.2.1 and was usingthe info
provided by Bruce Miller in his mini-HOW-TO but I'm having problems
with my preferences file. The contents of /etc/apt/preferences is:

Package: *

Pin: release a=testing

Pin-Priority: 777



Package: *

Pin: release a=unstable

Pin-Priority: 333

But apt-get is reporting the following:

Reading Package Lists... Done
E: Invalid record in the preferences file, no Package header
progeny:/home/jgay#

I get this no matter which command I use with apt-get. update fetches
the packages from testing and unstable and finishes with this. install
anything just gives me this back.

I've read the apt-get and apt-preferences man pages, but everything
'seems' to be in order. Where have I gone wrong?

I am looking forward to finally seeing KDE2.2.1

Thanks for all the help and support!

Cheers,

 John Gay


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