Apt question

Tom Wilson wtw
Mon May 17 11:55:30 PDT 2004


On Monday 10 November 2003 03:18 pm, Aaron Grewell's voice rose above 
the ones in my head and stated:

[snips of sources file]
>
> I commented out the Sid stuff to see if I could force it to use the
> experimental stuff, but when I run apt-get upgrade it says:
>
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>
> I went into
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/project/experimental/main/binary-i38
>6/Packa ges to make sure the packages for 4.3 were listed there.  They
> are.  So how do I get APT to recognize them?

Did you do an apt-get update before the apt-get upgrade after you 
changed you sources.list file?   

If you didn't, apt is still hitting the sid repository instead of the 
experimental.  


-- 
Tom Wilson
Reg. Linux user# 199331




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