Okay, this is probably a bonehead user question but I'm just getting used to Debian. Not normally a bonehead :-(
I would like/prefer to run 'stable'. Debian/Woody installed on my laptop perfectly fine. Wireless/WEP, IPsec, X all up and running SWEET. Unfortunately, the stable browser is 'zilla 1.0 :-( I would like to run a modern Mozilla, without updating the whole universe if possible. I've done the documented steps for accessing unstable (testing doesn't have anything newer) and rerun apt-get update and it sees the packages just fine. But when I try to upgrade mozilla it wants to install 293 packages ... uh, no. The man page indicates that apt-get upgrade doesn't handle single package upgrades -- to use dselect. Well dselect gets way way lost inside a tree I can't find my way out of. I spent an hour trying to make dselect happy, and I'm still lost. So finally I just went to the package directly using mozilla. It tells me of the dependancies, but allows me to download directly. But then kpackage barfs because it wants all the dependancies. Am I really supposed to spend all night long manually downloading all the dependancies? Ugh. So I am writing here in hopes I'm overlooking something. Please, tell me how one can update just one package and its dependancies, without doing a full-on conversion from Woody to unstable? If a single package forces one to upgrade completely to unstable branch, then the entire purpose of the trees appears to be a moot point. Now -- skip the download and compile yourself. No fun. And skip the 'download the 'zilla net installer and use that' -- because I already have. But I want to know how to solve this problem and stay within the Debian framework. -- Joe Rhett Chief Geek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isite Services, Inc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
