On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 08:10:52AM -0500, Amy Tanner wrote: > Is there a way to use apt-get to install a particular version of a > package? I was trying to install kernel-source-2.4.9-31 but the APT > repository also had 2.4.9-34. I couldn't find a way to tell it the > version number I wanted. It seems, apt will always install the latest > version by default but surely there must be a way to specify other. > I couldn't find anything in the man pages on this. Thanks. Personally, I don't try to decipher the kernel-source packages and the mass of patches that are applied in one monolithic diff file. This is my one pet-peeve with Debian packages. They do /not/ respect the patch! ;-) There are some packages that are now shipping with a tarball of patches applied during the build process rather than during the initial unpacking process. Back to the kernel-source. These packages are largely useless. I've found them more confusing than anything. The easiest way to create a Debian kernel is to download the original kernel tarball, then use make-kpkg from the kernel-package toolkit. cd ~ mkdir src cd src tar -zxvf linux-2.4.9.tar.gz cd linux cp /boot/config-2.4.x .config make menuconfig make-kpkg clean sudo make-kpkg --revision='1:200205071' \ --append-to-version='-custom' \ kernel_image 2&>1 | \ tee /tmp/linux-2.4.9-custom-200205071 #dpkg --install ../kernel-image-2.4.9... Now, to answer some of your apt questions, you must specify which distribution you want to install from: stable, testing, or unstable. -31 may be in stable but not in testing. Your /etc/apt/sources.list file may have only testing or only stable. Apt will only resolve packages that it finds in the Packages.gz files, which are located under specific distribution directories: ftp://mirror/pub/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz corresponds to deb ftp://mirror/pub/debian stable main Now, if you want to list multiple distributions in your sources.list file but pick and choose which package to install, you need to use "pinning" from the /etc/apt/preferences file. Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 800 Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 500 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 70 This would set up a priority of stable packages over all else, but allow some priority to testing packages. Unstable would be ignored unless you specify it on the commandline: apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.9/unstable (If it existed in unstable.) You can also use the preferences file to specify certain packages to ALWAYS track from unstable. Since I like galeon, I need mozilla. I need to list all of the packages that I want to track from unstable because my default (at work) is to track testing: Package: mozilla Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 998 Package: mozilla-browser Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 998 Package: mozilla-mailnews Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 998 Package: mozilla-psm Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 998 Package: galeon Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 998 Package: libnss3 Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 998 Package: libnspr4 Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 998 READ MORE: apt_preferences(5), found via man -k apt. -- Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020607/32058873/attachment.pgp