On Tue, 28 Nov 2017 16:57:49 +0000
KatolaZ <katolaz@???> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 04:53:17PM +0000, Rowland Penny wrote:
>
> [cut]
>
> > >
> > > deb http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/ ascii-proposed main
> > >
> > > ;)
> > >
> > > KatolaZ
> > >
> >
> > Yes, that deb fixed the problem, but I had to download the deb and
> > install it with dpkg. I added the deb line to sources.list and ran
> > 'apt-get update' but I couldn't install the new file with
> > 'apt-get', I probably didn't use the right incantation :-)
> >
>
> you could have used:
>
> # apt-get -t ascii-proposed install base-files
>
> HND
>
> KatolaZ
>

I did something similar:

apt-get -t o=ascii-proposed install base-files

Rowland