Re: Dont install suggested and recommended packages with apt-get?
On Feb 20 12:32, Remy Indebetouw wrote:
> > Im having a stable system which I just uppgraded apt on to be able to
> > install selected packages from testing as described on
> > 'http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2002/1/mail'.
> How did you upgrate only apt?
> I tried pointing my sources.list to testing, and apt-get install apt, but
> it wated to get a new libc6 and a lot of other things.
I was a bit incorrect there. I gave apt/testing as the only package to
apt-get but indeed it wanted to upgrade a couple of other packages, so I
let it do so. The packages that it wanted to upgrade was (excerpt from
apt-get):
Get:1 ftp://ftp.fi.debian.org testing/main libc6 2.2.5-3 [3376kB]
Get:2 ftp://ftp.fi.debian.org testing/main libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-1 [142kB]
Get:3 ftp://ftp.fi.debian.org testing/main apt 0.5.4 [615kB]
Get:4 ftp://ftp.fi.debian.org testing/main libc6-dev 2.2.5-3 [2361kB]
Get:5 ftp://ftp.fi.debian.org testing/main locales 2.2.5-3 [3349kB]
I can tell you that it worked fine. Ill just had to restart some daemons
such as proftpd and sshd, which debconf's ask you to do under the
installation.
Notice that some packages in testing need to have newer versions of perl
installed for there configuration scripts (pre-inst, pro-inst and all
those) to work. I discovered this when I tried to install ddclient and
apt-show-versions. To work that out I did an "apt-get install perl/testing
perl-base/testing libdb2/testing". It gave me an warning that you are about
to remove essential packages (old perl that is) but I let it continue. It
wanted to remove some other packages too such as debconf ipmasq and locales
under the installation. I installed these from testing again after the perl
upgrading was done.
Hopes that helps you and doesnt scare you to much! =)
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