upgrade and synaptic

[Cybe R. Wizard]

On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 10:43:55 -0500
"Andrew Conkling" <andrew.conkling at gmail.com> wrote:

> > > Actually, I'm fairly sure you can specify what takes priority by
> > > "pinning" your repositories.  I've never done it, but the wiki
> > > seems to have something to say on the matter:
> > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PinningHowto
> >
> > You're talking about apt-get not synaptic, its front-end in ubuntu.
> > apt-get is of course more powerful, but less easy to understand.
> 
> I'm a bit confused.  So does Synaptic behave differently than apt-get?
>  I had thought Synaptic was just a graphical front-end...?

The same thing is available in Synaptic using <force version> under the
<packages> menu item.  One must have differing entries in 
/etc/apt/sources.list, though.

Cybe R. Wizard
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