Re: trouble installing ruby in etch

["Gordon Pedersen" <gordon@visi.com>]

On 10/19/07, Mumia W.. <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam@earthlink.net> wrote:
> On 10/19/2007 10:45 AM, Gordon Pedersen wrote:
> > On 10/19/07, Mumia W.. <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam@earthlink.net> wrote:
> >> On 10/18/2007 10:47 PM, Gordon Pedersen wrote:
> >>> [...]
> >>> ...except, why were testing packages favored over stable?
> >> By default, apt-get wants to install later versions of packages, so if
> >> it sees both libc6 2.6.1 and libc6 2.3.6, apt-get will prefer the later
> >> version, 2.6.1.
> >
> > Thanks.  I guess apt doesn't sense that the system is "stable" - I
> > wonder if there is a way to tell it so?   Maybe by pinning "*" to
> > stable, somehow?
>
> Yes. Read "man apt_preferences" to find out how to pin packages and
> distributions.

Thank you.  It's a lot to digest, but it is exactly focussed on what
I'm trying to do.