Patrick Bartek: > Need to upgrade claws-mail installed from regular repo to a newer > version in wheezy-backports. I don't want to end up with two installed > versions. Have done research, but have found nothing specific about > this particular procedure. Would > > apt-get install -t wheezy-backports claws-mail=<newer version number> > > upgrade the old version or just install the new version along side the > old.
A Debian package can only ever be installed in one version at a time on
one machine. The package is defined by its name. In your example,
claws-mail is the package name and if it is already installed then it
will be upgraded. You can most probably leave out the version number
behind the package name. I would be surprised if wheezy-backports
contained more than one version of claws-mail. And even if that was the
case, apt-get would then pick the most recent version.
> Or would it be easier to "remove" the old version keeping all the
> configs, etc., and install the new one from backports? I did this with
> LibreOffice a few years ago. Worked fine.
Doesn't really make a difference. The state of your system should be the
same after either 'remove && install' or a simple 'install'.
J.
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