Re: apt-get: upgrade one package to particular version?
I too am woefully ignorant of apt...
You should not need however to put on hold any package installed using
dpkg if the package that was obtained is a later release than listed in
the available.
I have done this nearly countless times without ever using hold and no
problem has ever come up.
On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 10:04:00PM -0000, Pollywog wrote:
>
> On 22-Jul-99 Carl Fink wrote:
> >> apt-get --install icewm
> >>
> >> should be all you need to do.
> >
> > No, actually it isn't, since that would install the version in
> > *stable*. That's what I have installed now. What I'd like to do is
> > install the version in *unstable*, without changing all my other
> > packages to the unstable version.
>
> I don't know if there is a way to do that with apt-get, so I have just
> downloaded the packages and installed them manually and then put the packages
> on "hold" just to be safe.
>
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> Andrew
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