That would be the way you should be able to do it. I was never able to get it to work. Too many things that broke other things
etc. I just ended up going to testing and have been *very* happy with it so far. With a couple of minor exceptions nothing has broken and it is in terms of performance just as stable as Potato, IMHO. ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 16:05:42 +0100 >Am Freitag, 16. Februar 2001 14:44 schrieb Nils Crefeld: >> Hello, >> >> i'm running potato r2 with xfree 3.3.6. now i would like to upgrade to >> xfree 4.0.x. I tried to put a line for the woody release into my >> sources.list, but then dselect wants to update all newer packages. i just >> want to upgrade the xserver (and maybe some other packages x depends on) >> and not everything. is there a way to do this? >> >> Nils > >hi ... > >try to use apt-get.... > >with "apt-get update" you receive the package informations (provided by >/etc/apt/sources.list)... >with "apt-get install <packagename>" you get the wanted packages... >but it's usefull (when dealing with woody) to use "apt-get -s install ><packagename>", >then apt-get only shows what it "would" do... > >i hope i could help you a bit, cos im a newbie either... > >greets peter > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >