Linux Debian support - Re: dselect (dpkg?) incorrectly shows packages to remove that are not marked for remov

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Re: dselect (dpkg?) incorrectly shows packages to remove that are not marked for remov

Peter J Ross

2005-03-11, 5:45 pm

On Friday 11 March 2005, Asa Rossoff wrote in alt.os.linux.debian:

> Asa Rossoff wrote:
>
> Well, I solved the problem. I had added a source for backports.org, and
> I think apt wanted to upgrade my system to all the backports....
>
> Commented out that source and everything was back to normal.
>
> How then can I make use of the backports but not have everything upgraded?

Google "apt-pinning".

Alternatively, download the .debs you want (and their dependencies)
from backports.org with a browser or wget, and install them with "dpkg
-i foo.deb".

PJR :-)
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