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Author: Dave Turner
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] getting surf from backports
On 13/03/17 13:35, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 08:25:25AM +0000, KatolaZ wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 07:10:00PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>>> I have found two browser-related devuan packages that have surf in
>>> their names.
>>>
>>> surf
>>> netsurf
>>>
>>> Is either of them relted to the surf you are documenting?
>>>
>> Hi Hendrik,
>>
>> you should use the package "surf". The default version in jessie is
>> 0.6, but I would warmly suggest you to get the 0.7, e.g. from
>> jessie-backports.
> Just noticed
>     surf --version
> doesn't work.

>
> But aptitude indeed does tell me I'm using 0.6.
>
> Looking at backports. Now have surf 0.7.
>
> With the backports lines in /etc/apt/sources.list, will everything automatically
> get upgraded to the backports version if I do
>     aptitude update
>     aptitude upgrade
> ?  I don't see anything in /etc/apt to stop this.  I'd like to be able to have some
> control over which packages I get from backports.

>
> Or am I better off from a security perspective to always get backports updates for
> everything?
>
> -- hendrik
>
>> HND
>>
>> KatolaZ
>>
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Hendrik,
When you use backports all packages in backports are de-activated.
You have to explicitly install the package you want.

|sudo apt-get -t jessie-backports install "package"|


So don't be afraid to add
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main
into your sources.list

and have a look at
https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/
to set your mind at rest.

DaveT
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