[Wine] Re: [Debian Sarge] dependency on libxxf86dga1

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Nigel Henry <cave.dnb at tiscali.fr> wrote:

>Right. I've just booted up Debian Sarge, and I don't have 
>an /etc/apt/preferences. Doh!  
>
>Ok. I've added the source URL for backports to /etc/apt/sources.list , then 
>run 
>aptitude update, then opened up synaptic. Wine is there, as a package from 
>backports along with all the other backported packages, and as I thought also 
>needs libwine as a dependency. Its DL'ing libwine (10.6MB) on dialup at the 
>moment.
>
>BIG WARNING. Make sure to comment out the backports URL after DL'ing and 
>installing Wine, and winelib, putting a # in front of the URL, and saving the 
>change. If you don't do this, the next time you run an apt-get dist-upgrade, 
>all the packages that you have on your machine, and are marked for updating 
>from the backports repo, will be updated, which apart from Wine, if it 
>installs ok, is not perhaps a good idea.

OK, so this way I can update once. An automatic update does
not work this way. Any way to include it regularly in my
dselect sessions?

On the other hand: Why not just include backborts in the
regular process for all packages?

pi