Robert McWilliam wrote: > On Sat, 19 May 2007 18:11:54 +0100 > I C McNab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Unpacking replacement libpath-class-perl ... >> Setting up libpath-class-perl (0.15-1) ... >> and then it stops. > > Does it get to successfully applied?
Robert >>> Hard to say what's really happening. There's no further output in the 'Details' screen to indicate that anything is actually being installed. The Update Manager terminates with the usual 'Updates successfully applied' message; but the package stays in the list of available updates. > I've had a poke in the slim devices repository and the > libpath-class-perl package there has the same version as the one from > universe but is different which looks to be confusing apt. > > It looks like the version locking in synaptic is just using the > version. Pinning in apt can be more complicated, including where the > package comes from. > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html#s-pin > or > 'man apt_preferences' I'm very grateful for the trouble you're going to about this. I'll look into pinning the package, as you suggest. I also wondered whether to try uninstalling it, setting sources.list to use the Universe repository rather than slimdevice, and reinstalling the package from Universe. Thanks for your interest and advice. -- Ian -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
