[plug] dselect help

[Tim Bowden]

James Devenish wrote:
> In message <3F7BCF25.7060807 at iinet.net.au>
> on Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 03:09:25PM +0800, Tim Bowden wrote:
> 
>>Yes, evolution is, however I was a little unclear in my problem 
>>description.  evolution wants libgnome-pilot1 which is only in stable.
> 
> 
> Ah -- I didn't realise this situation is allowed to arise! Maybe you
> could just installed the deb yourself with dpkg. Alternatively, perhaps

Just what I did.

> the 'responsible' way to install it is to add stable to your
> sources.list and have a simple /etc/apt/preferences file something
> like this:
> 
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=testing
> Pin-Priority: 900
> 
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=stable
> Pin-Priority: 800
> 
> 

Now done.

Thank you very much to all who have helped with my move to debian.  I've 
had to get my hands much dirtier than ever I did with RH but it is 
satisfying to have learned more about linux in the process.


Thanks,
Tim Bowden

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