Re: apt-get

From: Micha Feigin (michf_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Wed 21 Jul 2004 - 16:38:38 IDT


On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 12:37:49PM +0300, David Harel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know why when I do - apt-get update - on a RH 9 it installs
> back older packages which I manually updated?
> I did it while hoping i would have KDE updated automatically (I had KDE
> 3.2.2 at the time). What it did is reverted me back to KDE 3.1

I don't know if apt behaves the same under red-hat as with debian, but
under debian by default if you manually installed packages of the same
version as the repository available packages, the repository ones will
be installed.

The default setting of apt doesn't download package version.

You need to look at two files. /etc/apt/sources.list tells apt where to
look for packages and /etc/apt/apt.conf which set the update
preferences in terms of package versions and preferred distribution.

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