On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 11:46:56AM -0500, Philip C Mendelsohn wrote: > On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, John R. Sheets wrote: > > > On Wednesday, August 02, 2000, Philip C Mendelsohn <mend0070 at tc.umn.edu> wrote: > > > Edit sources.list. I just did that to install glibc6 on my slink+ > > > box. I should get off my duff and do a dist-upgrade, but work has my > > > blinders on to doing much that doesn't have to do with the project I'm > > > working on. > > > > Is there an official mechanism for that, or do you have to hack it in, > > do the install, then hack it back out? If it's an official option, how > > do I tell it to only install/update certain packages from unstable? Yeah, you have to hack it in and out by hand. > Edit your sources.list to include unstable, then I'm not usually one to pick nits, but then you should: "apt-get update" to get the package listing from unstable. then: > apt-get install 'package1, package2, ... ' > > It will go find the most current package automagically. Then, if you don't want to get other packages, change your sources.list back to frozen and re-run apt-get update. Its a little hackish, but it works nice ;) -- Jim Crumley | crumley at belka.space.umn.edu | Work: 612 624-6804 or -0378 | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org