Re: Upgrading, getting the package
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 12:03:01PM +0200, Laura Rudmin wrote:
> I generally use dselect, not understanding the apt-* system (not for
> want of trying, but the documentation is completely opaque to me.
> Sorry, there seems to be a density barrier there as of right now.
> Maybe in a year I'll understand it...)
As far as non-command-line goes, I prefer aptitude.
> No problem: I decided just to go to KDE.ORG and download the debs.
>
> So I'd *really* like to go back and find some way to be able to
> simply "dselect" KDE 3.04. Not to mention, I'll be able to better see
> what the packages are, avoid conflicts, and such.
>
> Anyone know how to do this? I suspect it has something to do with
> sources, but to be able to set my sources on my own, I have to know (1)
> how to find out what is out there, (2) how to set my sources to that
> without destroying my old sources (and creating problems for other
> installed packages) (3) how to link that with dselect, should that be a
> problem.
Edit /etc/apt/sources.list, add new deb lines, update.
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