On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 23:57 +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 09:15:10PM +0100, Dallam Wych wrote: > >On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 05:59:00PM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: > > > >> # apt-get -t experimental install gnome > > > >What happens if you issue: > >apt-get -t experimental install gnome-desktop-environment? > >Or am I missing your point? :) > > Same thing happens. > > The point is that I already have the packages gnome and > gnome-desktop-environment from Sid installed and simply installing it > again (with the -t experimental argument) won't pull in anything--all > dependencies are already satisfied. I don't want do do an upgrade, since > that would pull in much more than I want. AFAICS a gnome (or > gnome-desktop-environment) package in experimental would pull in all > Gnome2.8 related packages. > > To make things worse, it seems that using aptitude to install all > upgradable packages in the section gnome will break a few dependencies > and cause Sid::gnome to be removed... a gnome package in experimental > would not do that. > > I think it'd also be useful if there were a command that would try to do > an upgrade of a specified package and all its dependencies. Given the > vastness of Debian I wouldn't be too surprised if such a command > existed, but I don't know of it, yet.
Try installing this way: # apt-get install gnome/experimental Or even better, try to set APT to prefer experimental: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release a=experimental Pin-Priority: 101 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Regards, -- David Moreno Garza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.damog.net/ GPG 356E16CD - 84F0 E180 8AF6 E8D0 842F B520 63F3 08DB 356E 16CD
