Subject: Re: slink -> potato X11?
From: Goswin Brederlow (goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de)
Date: Thu Oct 14 1999 - 01:28:55 PDT
Ron Farrer <rbf@toxic.magnesium.net> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I have /etc/apt/sources.list pointing using ftp1.us.debian.org for
> unstable/main. Now when I do "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade" or -f
> dist-upgrade, why wont it upgrade to the latest X11 binaries? I have
> 3.3.2.3a-11 and it wont upgrade it! 3.3.2.3a-11 is broken and no one
> on debian-user knows why. I submitted a bug report and the package
> maintainer said why don't you upgrade to the potato version? I'd love
> to... Perhaps I am not doing something correctly? I had a look on the ftp
> site and the files look to be there...
>
> Ideas?
Maybe they have unmet dependencies since they arenīt compiled yet for
alpha or something similar?
Try to download some of the X stuff by hand and run
dpkg -i <file>
Try xbase for example.
Doing this by hand is anoying, but then you wll see exactly what
fails.
May the Source be with you.
Goswin
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