On 12 Nov 1998, Daniel E. Hollis wrote: > I mucked up my package list. I'm trying to install kde and xfree86, the > stable versions. One of the 2 required, so I thought, a xlibc _unstable_ > version. I connected to the local debian distribution ftp site and got the > unstable directory listings. Now, dselect wants to upgrade _everything_ to > the > unstable versions. And to install new software, I can only get dselect to > choose unstable versions. I'd ideally love to chose something like > "install/upgrade stable only" but no such choice exists. I'm willing to go > back and build a new package list form the ftp site, but I don't want to go > and > delete something that conceivably could be keeping track of currently > installed > packages. What should I do?
Either: a) use dpkg to install the programs you want from slink by hand b) place all the other packages on hold. HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/