Re: newbie: apt->x11 only?
Remy Indebetouw <indebeto@casa.Colorado.EDU> wrote:
>I would like to get only xfree86 4.0 (out of woody, presumably), but
>don't want to deal with all of woody updates - what's the easiest way?
>
>i tried getting sources.list to point only to pool/../xfree, and such,
>without success
>
>i also tried loading all 'testing' into dselect but couldn't get it to
>not update a lot of things, even with 'Directly requested' mode.
No, don't try to do that; XFree86 in woody depends on too much other
stuff, so you might as well just upgrade to woody if you were going to
install those packages. There are *unofficial* XFree86 4.0.2 packages
for potato instead: see
<URL:http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/xf402_potato/>.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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