Subject: RE: Help with apt Date: Fri, May 07, 1999 at 11:20:12AM -0400
In reply to:Jonathan J. Lupa Quoting Jonathan J. Lupa([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Question: So how do I, running from a slink CD, get and install potato's apt? > > If I add entries for 'unstable' in /etc/apt/sources.list, and then go into > dselect, it wants to upgrade my world to potato. > Or if you do apt-get upgrade <shudder> Add the potato link to sources.list and then just do apt-get update ( to let apt & dselect know about the potato Package lists) then apt-get install apt. Then I would comment out the potato entry in sources.list, lest I forget and do apt-get upgrade, and blow the whole thing out! > Of course, I can always just go download the deb and run dpkg on it, but is > there a better way? Yes, as I said above. Dselect ? Do people 'still' use that? -- Command, n.: Statement presented by a human and accepted by a computer in such a manner as to make the human feel as if he is in control. _______________________________________________________ Wayne T. Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>