[ale] HOW2 force the installation of a utililty that is "out of version" in Debian ?

[James P. Kinney III]

Try a manual download, sneakernet move and manual install:

http://packages.debian.org/testing/admin/pump

with link to the download:

http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/pump/pump_0.8.24-2_i386.deb

It should fit on a floppy according to the first page (under 100K
installed, <32K .deb file).

On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 19:43 -0500, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> Preston,
> 
> More fully, I should have included the output from
>     apt-get install pump
> 
> which is:
>     "Package pump is not available, but is referred to by another package.
>     This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is
> available
>     only from another source.
>     Package pump has no installation candidate."
> 
> Also apt-get tries to access the sources.list but of course can't since my
> NIC is inoperable without pump.
> 
> And again, I've put pump [previously functional Woody version] in
> /var/cache/apt/archives before running
>      apt-get install pump
> 
> Gratefully,
> Courtney
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Preston Boyington" <preston.lists at gmail.com>
> To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
> Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 5:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [ale] HOW2 force the installation of a utililty that is "out of
> version" in Debian ?
> 
> 
> > Courtney Thomas wrote:
> > <snipped>
> > >
> > > But when I: apt-get -f install jump, I just get a complaint
> > > that..."package pump is not available", though it is in
> > > /var/cache/apt/archives as jump-0.8.3-3_i386.deb.
> > >
> > > Guidance appreciated,
> > >
> > > Courtney
> >
> > Courtney, I don't immediately see "jump", by chance do you mean "pump"?
> >
> > the latest pump package i see is:
> > Source package pump
> >
> >     * oldstable (base): 0.8.11-5
> >       Binary packages: pump, pump-udeb
> >
> >     * stable (base): 0.8.21-2
> >       Binary packages: pump
> >
> >     * testing (admin): 0.8.24-2
> >       Binary packages: pump
> >
> >     * unstable (admin): 0.8.24-2
> >       Binary packages: pump
> >
> > which would be installed "apt-get install pump"
> > i usually do:
> > apt-get update
> > apt-get install <package> --dry-run (goes through all the motions of
> > installing without actually doing so)
> >
> > then if all looks good i do the command again without the "--dry-run"
> >
> > apologies if i am mistaken...
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