>> Another way to look at this would be to ask... >> >> Given two available versions of a package where the higher version has >> the lower priority, how do I get apt to automatically install the >> lower priority one when the higher version is required to meet a >> dependency? > > If the higher version is required to meet a dependency, why don't you > want it installed?
Sorry I wasn't clear enough with priority and version, an example might help. Imagine we are trying to install package Bob from testing with "apt-get install bob/testing". Package Bob depends on package Fred with version >= 1.1 We have these two candidates for package Fred: stable, priority 500, version 1.0 testing, priority 400, version 1.1 And Apt says: The following packages have unmet dependencies: bob: Depends: fred but it is not going to be installed As I understand it this is because it chose the priority 500 version which isn't sufficient to meet the dependency. > Apt is going to try to meet the dependency. I wish it would, but it doesn't and I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. As far as I can see it ALWAYS goes for the the higher priority version even if that won't meet the dependency. G -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org