Nigel Henry <cave.dnb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Right. I've just booted up Debian Sarge, and I don't have >an /etc/apt/preferences. Doh! > >Ok. I've added the source URL for backports to /etc/apt/sources.list , then >run >aptitude update, then opened up synaptic. Wine is there, as a package from >backports along with all the other backported packages, and as I thought also >needs libwine as a dependency. Its DL'ing libwine (10.6MB) on dialup at the >moment. > >BIG WARNING. Make sure to comment out the backports URL after DL'ing and >installing Wine, and winelib, putting a # in front of the URL, and saving the >change. If you don't do this, the next time you run an apt-get dist-upgrade, >all the packages that you have on your machine, and are marked for updating >from the backports repo, will be updated, which apart from Wine, if it >installs ok, is not perhaps a good idea. OK, so this way I can update once. An automatic update does not work this way. Any way to include it regularly in my dselect sessions? On the other hand: Why not just include backborts in the regular process for all packages? pi _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
