3rd party packages etc after upgrade to hoary

demon666_nl ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org
Wed Mar 23 17:40:29 UTC 2005


Sean Hammond Wrote: 
> When you upgrade from Warty to Hoary, what becomes of any 3rd party
> packages and repositories you were using? Particularly, I upgraded by
> just blanking my sources.list file and replacing it with a clean hoary
> sources file (replacing all instances of warty with hoary didn't work,
> I don't remember the exact erro). So what became of those packages?
> Are they still installed? Is there a way to see them and remove them,
> perhaps replacing them with hoary equivalents?
> 
> Currently I don't seem to have any 3rd party packages in synaptic,
> except for some jrfronseca one, don't know where that came from.
> Basically I'm starting to get confused about the package management
> here.
> 
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those packages are kept installed if they are not in hoary and do not
conflict with specific hoary packages.

you can safely add marillat to your sources.list again (I had it in
warty and still have it in hoary).


For warty backports go here :
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=12174


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