to the mint forums I go! Thanks for your help Mark. I'll post what I find out there after I hear back from them. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: > > On Jan 3, 2015 11:14 AM, "Michael Havens" wrote: > > > > so then, is just for lower than the version that are in the > apt-cache. > > Actually, the version you want has to be in your sources.list. > > glad I'm talking to you all about this because I just discovered that > after you run = you need to run : > > > > sudo echo “package hold” | sudo dpkg –set-selections > > Only if you don't want the package upgraded at the next apt-get upgrade. > > > > > I also discovered that to find the versions in the repository you run: > > > > apt-cache showpkg packagename > > > > so is there no way to force a version into apt-cache? > > The sources.list just says where to find a package. Sort of like a big > phone book...if you don't have the white pages for Ajo, you can't find your > friend's phone number who lives in Ajo. Once you get the Ajo book, you have > access to everyone's phone number in Ajo, but you are only interested in > your friend's number. > > Pinning tells apt to only use the 2011 edition of the Ajo phone book to > look up your friend's phone number, even though you now subscribe to the > latest version of the Ajo phone book. You still have all the latest phone > numbers on hand, which does not impact your selection of the 2011 phone > number for your friend's phone number. > > I just tried to force the installation of the unstable version of the > package (sudo apt-get install kmymoney/unstable) but it seems as if it > isn't called 'unstable' in mint (ubuntu). Am I doing it wrong? What are the > Archives called in Mint (ubuntu) > > Sorry, I have never used mint. Just a long time Debian user who recently > switched to Ubuntu for my desktop with my new laptop...It came > pre-installed. ;-) > > Mark > > > > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > > On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Michael Havens > wrote: > >> > >> help immensely. Thank you Mark. > >> > >> :-)~MIKE~(-: > >> > >> On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Mark Phillips < > mark@phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote: > >>> > >>> Michael, > >>> > >>> If all you have is the stable branch in your sources.list, then you > won't have access to any of the testing packages, even if you specify > testing on the command line with apt-get. apt-get has to know where to find > the package you want to download, which is why sources.list exists. If you > want to be able to install both testing and stable packages, then you have > to have both stable and testing branches listed in your sources.list. > >>> > >>> If you want to hold a package to a specific version or branch (stable, > testing, experimental), then you can "pin" that package to that version, > and all future updates will only use that version. Take a look at > http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html. However, you still have to > have the correct repositories listed in sources.list, and you have to run > an apt-get upgrade to update the local cache so the OS knows where to find > the packages you want. > >>> > >>> Hope that helps! > >>> > >>> Mark > >>> > >>> On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 1:02 AM, Michael Havens > wrote: > >>>> > >>>> A specific version of a package can be selected for installation by > >>>> following the package name with an equals (=) and the version of the > package to select. This will cause that version to be located and selected > for install. Alternatively, a specific distribution can be selected by > following the package name with a slash (/) and the version of the > distribution or the Archive name (i.e. stable, testing, unstable). > >>>> > >>>> source: http://linux.die.net/man/8/apt-get > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> So this is saying to me you don't need the PPA to install the latest > version but can instead do: > >>>> = > >>>> > >>>> If that is so we don't need to add PPAs to our systems. IN other > words PPAs are just a way to make it so that we are always running the > latest version of the package regardless of if it works whereas we choose > what we want to run with: > >>>> = > >>>> That is very Linuxy of them! > >>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: > >>>> > >>>> --------------------------------------------------- > >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > >>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> --------------------------------------------------- > >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > >> > >> > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >