On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:54:11 +0000, xendistar@??? said:
> s there
> anyway I can tell Synaptics to ignore the Mepis repo version.?
Yes: look into the use of /etc/apt/preferences. Section 3.10 on this page
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html will help,
but in essence you need to create /etc/apt/preferences if it doesn't
already exist. You need to know the exact name of the package in question
(try 'dpkg -l|grep wicd') and the exact version of the package (the same
command will give you that). Then add to /etc/apt/preferences:
Package: exact-package-name
Pin: version exact-version-number
Pin-Priority: 1000
You can pin by repository, but that's a little more complex.
hth,
Keith
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