On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 10:17:02AM +1000, John Griffiths wrote: > can anyone point me to a really good resource for how to use apt-get? > > NO NOT THE MAN PAGE PLEASE!!! please? > > in particular i'm running potato but i want some woody packages... Don't use apt-get for this (other than to mark the packages held so they aren't updated behind your back). Grab the packages yourself from a download site, and install them with dpkg. For information: man dpkg or 'dpkg --help'. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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