Author: Graham Bleach Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Update question
2009/1/24 Tim <xendistar@???>: > I am running Mepis 8 RC1 distro (which is based on Debian lenny) and use
> Synaptics for updating the distro. A couple of weeks ago I installed a
> software package called wicd using the developers own apt repository.
>
> A couple of days ago the Mepis community repository produced a version of
> wicd, same version as the one from wicd own apt repo. Now I don't want to
> install the Mepis repo one but stay with the devlopers own version, is there
> anyway I can tell Synaptics to ignore the Mepis repo version.? I can't
> disable the Mepis repos as I have a couple of other packages from that repos
> source
No doubt this is possible, with some apt magic, but your life will be
much easier if you simply use the packaged version from Mepis. Ask
yourself how you will benefit by using the packages supplied by the
wicd developers?
