Re: General questions
On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 10:43:13PM +0100, scratch wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Mark Brown wrote:
> > You could download individual .deb files and install them by hand ("dpkg
> > -i package.deb"), or point apt at your friendly potato mirror and then
> > use "apt-get install <package>" to install and upgrade the packages you
> > want.
> To do this, is it necessary to manually switch over sources.list files
> every time you want a potato package instead of a slink package?
Yes (or do an update). Actually, what I do is have dselect use
dpkg-multicd for Slink and set up apt for potato. I then install slink
packages with dselect and potato packages with apt.
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