Re: Selective/partial upgrade from Potato -> Woody?

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Gregory Guthrie <gguthrie@mum.edu> writes:

> I need a few packages which are not in potato, but are in woody.
> 
> Can I do a selective update to get these packages only?

Yes you can.

> 
> OR, if I add woody to the sources.list will dselect, or apt-get, 
> automatically try to get everything that is new; that is what happened to 
> me last time I think.

You should add woody to the sources.list then run
# dselect update
# apt-get install a-woody-package-you-want-to-install another [...]

This will only install the woody packages you need plus the packages
they depend on. That might be quite a lot of packages but that will
not try to get everything that is new.

Chris

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gregory Guthrie
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> Gregory Guthrie
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