Re: dselect listing
On 12 Nov 1998, Daniel E. Hollis wrote:
> I mucked up my package list. I'm trying to install kde and xfree86, the
> stable versions. One of the 2 required, so I thought, a xlibc _unstable_
> version. I connected to the local debian distribution ftp site and got the
> unstable directory listings. Now, dselect wants to upgrade _everything_ to the
> unstable versions. And to install new software, I can only get dselect to
> choose unstable versions. I'd ideally love to chose something like
> "install/upgrade stable only" but no such choice exists. I'm willing to go
> back and build a new package list form the ftp site, but I don't want to go and
> delete something that conceivably could be keeping track of currently installed
> packages. What should I do?
Either:
a) use dpkg to install the programs you want from slink by hand
b) place all the other packages on hold.
HTH,
Matthew
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