On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Ira Abramov wrote: > Quoting Hetz Ben-Hamo, from the post of Tue, 11 Feb: > > For RH 7.3 and 8.0 - go to: http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/ - note that > > you'll need to install apt4rpm to use the APT system to download and install > > those RPMS.. > > quick note for the impatiant that went and set their sid machine to > point at woody's KDE3.1 on the kde site - KDE3.1 in different packaging > is now in the unstable main branch. the fact it has different packaging > means the version numbers are different (because of use of epochs and > such), and apt will think the rc5/rc6 are newer than 3.1.0. the only > option is to painstakingly remove all the libraries and whatever depends > on them, remove the deb lines from apt so it sees only the main archive, > and install again. lots of manual messy stuff, but that's why you are > using unstable, right? :)
There is a better way: Apt can be ordered to give higher priorities to packages from a certain source. If you want to downgrade (like in this case) you'll need to give the kde source a priority of at least 1000 . This can be defined in /etc/apt/preferences . I don't recall the exact syntax... -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
