[Fwd: Re: What's apt-get doing to me?]
Patrick Lane said:
> Peter Hutnick wrote:
>>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".
> it should look something a little more like this:
>
> deb http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ sid main non-free contrib deb-src
> http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ sid main non-free contrib
>
> -or-
>
> deb http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
> deb-src http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
>
>
>
> You have it pointing to all 3 different flavors of Debian. Comment out the
> others, leave unstable uncommented, run apt-get update, and try again.
>
> --Patrick
No effect:
# grep -v ^# /etc/apt/sources.list | grep .
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
# apt-get install xfree86-common/unstable
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.
# apt-get install xfree86-common
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Sorry, xfree86-common is already the newest version.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Anyone else have any ideas?
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