What's apt-get doing to me?
I'm new to Debian, and apt.
I started out with a set of "Potato" CDs (why do you have to lie to the website
to get ISOs?) and have dorked around with apt-get to the point that I think I
have all unstable packages. Sort of.
The problem is if I try to upgrade my X thus:
# apt-get install xfree86-common/unstable
I get:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Selected version 4.1.0-8 (Debian:unstable) for xfree86-common
Sorry, xfree86-common is already the newest version.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
But KDE clearly (?) states I am running 3.3.6-11, which is the stable package,
AFAIK.
I get the same thing if I omit the "/unstable".
I check and I only have one "X" binary on the system (updatedb;locate X | grep
-e 'X$') so it isn't that I have both and am running the old one as far as I can
tell.
Where am I going wrong?
-Peter
PS: My /etc/apt/sources.list looks like:
# See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy
# Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs
# CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool.
#deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
#deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
#deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
# Uncomment if you want the apt-get source function to work
#deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-3
(20010427)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-2
(20010427)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-1
(20010427)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib
non-free
deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
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