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* neonatus@neonatus.net (neonatus@neonatus.net) wrote:
> * On 16-08-01 at 21:34 Oleksandr Moskalenko (malex@purdue.edu) wrote:
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>
> > Change your sources.list to point to testing rather than unstable and
> > run 'apt-get install "package"/testing'. This will downgrade the
> > "package". The easiest way to put a package on hold is to run this at
> > your shell prompt:
> >
> > echo "packagename hold" | dpkg --set-selections
> >
> > This was posted on the debian-user list earlier by:
> > From: "der.hans" <deb-user@LuftHans.com>
> > X-Sender: lufthans@spliff.LuftHans.com
> >
> > Later you'll be able to apt-get install these packages when they are
> > fixed and all will be good and grass will be green again. That's what I
> > hope for anyways.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Alex.
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> Hi!
>
> There is another problem with this matter. If I insert the testing sources to
> my sources.list and than do apt-get update and than try to install anything I
> keep getting failed dependancies, if I remove the testing paths from
> sources.list everything works just fine. Do you by any chance know how to fix
> this? To have both unstable and testing paths in sources.list file and still be
> able to operate normally with the debian packages via apt?
>
> THX in advance!
>
> Bostjan
Bostjan,
What works is this: comment out your unstable sources, uncomment
testing sources, do "apt-get update", then run "apt-get install
xserver-xfree86/testing". Do the same for xfree86-common, then run the
"hold" script I forwarded you earlier, change source lines to unstable
and do your business as usual.
This may not be the best way, but it works (TM) and I don't know any
better.
Alex.
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