On 27/05/07, Rick Welykochy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all, I have currently installed the Linux Vserver utils package util-vserver_0.30.212-1_i386.deb on Debian/Etch. There is a bug fix I require and it is available on the net in certain places, package util-vserver_0.30.213. I can google for it and find it, but when I apt-get update the update process does not find this latest package. I am an admitted apt-get newbie. Hopefully the solution is simple. All I need to do is install util-vserver_0.30.213 or upgrade from 0.30.212 to 0.30.213 Any clues on how to do this? This is to be done on a production server so I do not want upgrade *anything else*.
apt-get is less about actually installing packages and more about finding them in repositories. The actual installation work is done by dpkg. You should download the package file that you found using "save as" through your browser (or maybe your firefox/iceweasel already have some dpkg-wrapper defined as a .deb handler) or using wget, then as root type "dpkg -i util-vserver_0.30.213.deb" (or whatever is the name of the file you saved it as). Take care to download the file from reputable sources (short of official debian repositories) and/or verify its checksum/signature if possible. Another thing to note - maybe you want to keep around the current broken version. You can either get the .deb file from a debian repository or use "dpkg-repack" to re-create a .deb file from the installed version. BTW - my current favourite is to use "aptitude" even for simple command line installation that "apt-get" could handle simply because then aptitude will mark auto-installed dependencies as such and will be able to remove them when they are no longer required (but this is not relevant for the current question - you need dpkg for this job). Cheers, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
