On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 05:48:49PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > > You should be able to grab the fixed package from the > > oldstable-proposed-updates section of the archive. > > Thanks Kumar. > > I added: > deb http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian oldstable-proposed-updates main > to my sources.list, ran aptitude update, and tried again. > I get the same version (2005.dfsg.3-1). > > That would appear to be newer than the one mentioned above ... but is > still uninstallable. > > I tried using -t oldstable-proposed-updates, but it said 'Unable to find > an archive "oldstable-proposed-updates" for the package > "texlive-latex-base"' > > I guess my sources.list line is possibly wrong, but I don't get errors > from aptitude update (I did from our in-house mirror; it must be setup > differently) > > Any hints as to where I'm going wrong?
Not really sure, but maybe you could just download the .deb file and
run:
sudo dpkg -i <filename>.deb
That could work.
Kumar
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known as "the buggiest kernel ever".
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