F Zimmermann wrote: >On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Gary Jones wrote: >> what happens if one has packages >> which are later than what apt-get knows about. For example, I >> installed X from 2.1r4 but found it didn't support my video card, so >> installed a new copy of X from a tarball. > >Did you make your own .deb packages from the tar balls? Then you are lucky >otherwise dpkg/apt wount see them at all.
No, I didn't. Is that the correct procedure? Continuing the above example, dselect currently thinks that X version some.thing is installed (whatever the version is included with slink), not 3.3.6 which actually is. I guess I can build .debs for the few things I have installed manually, remove the manually installed stuff, then install from .debs. Thanks for the info. Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://www.linuxfreemail.com Linux FREE Mail is 100% FREE, 100% Linux, and 100% yours!