Re: Trouble with X Windows

[Howard Mann <howardm@xmission.com>]

> > Michael Jessop wrote:
> > >
> > > ...I do not understand the concept of how to point apt to a specific package
> > > or group of packages... for instance, to update all of x windows, how do 
> > > I tell it where to look for the package(s)?
> > >
> > > Thank you.
> > > Mike

>Howard Mann wrote:

> > Try this :
> >
> > 0   edit /etc/apt/sources.list, adding the following URI:
> >
> >     deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ xfree-update main
> >
> > 0    "comment-out" the other URI's in that file.

>Joe Block wrote:
> 
> You don't need to comment out the other URIs.  apt is smart enough to
> use the highest version number for any given package, so the
> xfree-update packages will override the stock slink stuff.


Sure. However, the user may not wish ( for whatever reason) to upgrade
the other packages on his system, and stipulating only one URI in this
case will speed-up the upgrade process. 

Do you agree?

Cheers,

Howard Mann.