gtkpod on ubuntu

[Christopher Aitken]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 12:24:47PM -0500, Christopher Aitken wrote:
>   
>> So, I'll have to do,
>>
>> 'apt-get install gtkpod=0.99.10-2~ppa1'
>>
>> from time to time?
>>     
>
> Well once you install a package with the ~ in the version, it should
> keep upgrading it automatically after that (unless a non experimental
> package with a higher version comes out and replaces it, then it will
> stick with the normal version again until told otherwise again).
>
> Whatever you tell it, it remembers.  So when told to install the
> experimental version, then it will keep doing that as long as there are
> updates.  Similarly one can do apt-get install foobar/unstable to
> install the unstable version of that package on a system tagged to
> default to stable or testing or whatever, and will keep upgrading to
> whatever is the current unstable package.  apt-show-versions is a handy
> tool for listing what is installed and what state it is in and what
> release it is pulling from.
>   
Okay - thanks for the explanations. So far I've had less problems with 
apt-get (in ubuntu) than I had with yum and rpm (in rh/fc/f).

Chris
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