On Sat,12.Dec.09, 15:28:19, Gordon Wrigley wrote: > I wasn't sure what venue was best to ask this in, so if this is the > wrong place please direct me to the correct place. Hmm, I would suggest ubuntu-users or similar mailing list, but there is indeed a chance that your question is not Ubuntu specific... [snip] > 1: sudo apt-get install firefox-3.5/lucid > > This will only pull dependencies from Karmic(stable) and will > generally fail because some supporting package doesn't have a high > enough version in Karmic(stable). > Now of course I could go through recursively by hand and resolve every > unmet dependency, but that quickly gets very tedious. > > 2: sudo apt-get install firefox-3.5 -t lucid In all Debian docs I have seen this is the recommended way of pulling specific packages from a non-default repository. > This will pull all required dependencies from Lucid(testing). Even > those that could have been met from Karmic(stable), which > unnecessarily pollutes my system with Lucid(testing) packages. > > What am I missing here? Assuming your apt behaves the same as Debian I think you want to set lucid to something smaller than 100, see apt_preferences(5) for more info. > P.S. I'm not subscribed to the list, it'd be handy if people could CC > me on any replies but I intend to keep an eye on the list archive > anyway. Sure ;) Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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