[wplug] My Debian died

[Brandon Kuczenski]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:

> On Wednesday 12 January 2005 05:15, Michael E Uhl wrote:
>> Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that you can use
>> the "upgrade" command of apt-get to upgrade a single package.  In my
>> experience "apt-get upgrade" always upgrades all packages for which
>> there are updates available.  I believe that you can upgrade a single
>> package by typing "apt-get install <package-name>", but I'm not
>> positive.  I hope this helps.
>
> That is correct.
>
> apt-get update && apt-get install xmms
> will get you the latest version of xmms and its dependencies only.
>
> apt-get update && apt-get upgrade will upgrade all packages with new
> versions, without installing any additional packages (anything having
> new dependencies will not be upgraded).

Wow.  So this was just a particularly egregious case of user error.

sigh.

Sorry everybody.

For the record, I seem to be a much better system administrator than 
desktop OSS user.

sheepishly,
Brandon