Re: Trouble upgrading to evince 2.30.1-3

[Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com>]

Peter Tenenbaum wrote:
> I did try aptitude update; no luck, I'm still at 2.30.1-2.
>
> -PT
>
> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Peter Tenenbaum <quarkpt@gmail.com 
> <mailto:quarkpt@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I'm trying to upgrade evince to 2.30.1-3, which has a fix for a
>     segfault bug in the version I have now (2.30.1-2).� Unfortunately,
>     when I use aptitude, it stubbornly insists that 2.30.1-2 is the
>     latest version and can't find the 2.30.1-3 version.� I have the
>     following line in /etc/apt/sources.list:
>
>     deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main
>
>     Is there something that I have to do other than aptitude install
>     evince?� (I guess obviously so, since that doesn't work!).
>
>     Thanks in advance for any advice,


Install package "gdebi" from your repos and then download evince 
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=evince and then just click on 
the evince package that you downloaded, gdebi will install it plus any 
depends.
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Jimmy Johnson

Debian Squeeze at sda9
Registered Linux User #380263