Almost no backports in amd64? or: How to use backports in amd64
Alf-Ivar Holm
alfh at student.matnat.uio.no
Fri May 6 16:05:35 UTC 2005
Gerhard Gaußling <ggrubbish at web.de> writes:
> I'm wondering how to use the backports for Hoary amd64.
Your /etc/apt/sources.list looks good.
> But I can't find any packages from the backports repository by using
> apt-cache. Is there another way to get those information?
You can direct your browser to:
http://backports.ubuntuforums.org/
and then find the link to browse the actual repository. (It's the same
link as above append with "backports/")
> For example I read, that firefox 1.0.3 is in the backport repos, but I
> can't find it
Neither did I, by browsing. Where did you read that?
> Is the backport repository maybe empty for the amd64 arch?
Not entirely, but mostly, compared to the 386 arch.
Affi
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