apt-get is trying to get unstable

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Thu Sep 18 21:16:34 UTC 2003


On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 04:45:53PM -0400, Mailing List wrote:
>   I was looking to see what was needed to install
> apt from the unstable branch.  Too much
> was needed for my preferences.
> 
> I ran apt-get this morning and it 
> still want to update a bunch, e.g. 300 packages, 
> from the unstable tree.  How do I tell it to forget
> about what it wants to do?  I just want it to look
> at the testing / sarge stream. 

Make sure unstable or sid is no longer mentioned in
/etc/apt/sources.list then run apt-get update

Lennart Sorensen
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