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Re: Directing apt



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On Wednesday 27 November 2002 19:35, Michael Montagne wrote:
> I've just upgraded my sarge/sid system to kde 3.  No problems so far.
> But when I run apt-get install koffice, apt wants to put kde2 back.
> Here are the sources I want to draw kde apps from:
> #KOffice, kdeartwork, kdeaddons, kdeedu, kdesdk, kdetoys, kile, kbear,
> quanta, kcd, kcpuload, kdbg,         knetload, konq-speaker, kprof
> deb http://people.debian.org/~bab/kde3 ./
> #kdevelop
> deb http://people.debian.org/~njordan kde3.0/
> #ksensors, kvim, kxicq2, krusader, yammi, arson
> deb http://ers.linuxforum.hu/kde3deb/ ./
>
> How can I tell apt to look particular places? Like apt-get -t
> unstable... would look in the unstable branch.  I don't know how to
> refer to these alternate sources.

You can use 

  apt-cache policy <package>

to see what priorities are being given to each of your apt sources.

And you can use apt_preferences(5) to override these priorities.

Paul Cupis
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paul@cupis.co.uk

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