Re: upgrade dependencies of a package
On Fri,11.Sep.09, 13:11:37, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Hello, > > On 9/11/09, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > aptitude -s install '~i~R^$' > > > > If you like the list of actions that aptitude shows in response to that > > command then you can run it again without "-s". > > > > I prefer to use the interactive interface of aptitude if I want to carry > > out such fine-grained changes to my system. > > > How do I tell aptitude that I prefer testing packages? From what I > see, it would currently bump everything to sid. > Liviu echo 'APT::Default-Release "squeeze";' >> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00local If you have apt older than 0.7.22 you will have to use "testing" instead of "squeeze". Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: upgrade dependencies of a package
On 9/11/09, Liviu Andronic wrote: > How do I tell aptitude that I prefer testing packages? From what I > see, it would currently bump everything to sid. > OK, I found. aptitude -t testing Liviu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: upgrade dependencies of a package
Hello, On 9/11/09, Florian Kulzer wrote: > aptitude -s install '~i~R^$' > > If you like the list of actions that aptitude shows in response to that > command then you can run it again without "-s". > > I prefer to use the interactive interface of aptitude if I want to carry > out such fine-grained changes to my system. > How do I tell aptitude that I prefer testing packages? From what I see, it would currently bump everything to sid. Liviu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: upgrade dependencies of a package
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:55:01 +0100, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Dear all > How do I get upgrade all the dependencies of a given package to their > newest available version? I do not want in the process to upgrade the > entire distribution. I am looking something similar to Gentoo's > emerge -av -DNu aptitude -s install '~i~R^$' If you like the list of actions that aptitude shows in response to that command then you can run it again without "-s". I prefer to use the interactive interface of aptitude if I want to carry out such fine-grained changes to my system. -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
upgrade dependencies of a package
Dear all How do I get upgrade all the dependencies of a given package to their newest available version? I do not want in the process to upgrade the entire distribution. I am looking something similar to Gentoo's emerge -av -DNu Thank you Liviu -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
