Re: new to debian -- a few questions

[Steve Block <scblock@ev-15.com>]

Chris Lale wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 15:44, Sridhar M.A. wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 07:13:50AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >   > 
> >   > Last I checked, v2.8 is not in Sarge, yet.  Besides, I run Sid,
> >   > so don't care that much about Sarge.
> >   > 
> > I think about 4 days back it made it into sarge. I have it on my system.
> >
> > $ apt-cache policy gnome-session
> > gnome-session:
> >  Installed: 2.8.1-3
> >  Candidate: 2.8.1-3
> >  Version Table:
> >     2.8.1-4 0
> >         95 http://ftp.debian.org unstable/main Packages
> > *** 2.8.1-3 0
> >        900 http://ftp.debian.org testing/main Packages
> >        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
>
> I don't think so.
>
> $ apt-cache policy gnome-session
> gnome-session:
>   Installed: 2.6.2-6
>   Candidate: 2.6.2-6
>   Version Table:
>  *** 2.6.2-6 0
>         500 ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org sarge/main Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> Chris.

Chris, have you run apt-get update recently? I have two machines running 
Sarge, both updated within the last 24 hours, both reporting gnome 
2.8.1-3 as the latest installable gnome version.

--
Steve Block
scblock@ev-15.com
http://ev-15.com/