Re: cannot install from backports

From	Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: cannot install from backports
Date	2019-06-25 22:10 +0200
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On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 04:04:55PM -0400, Brian Cary wrote:
>    Greetings!
>    As the title says, I can't seem to install anything from backports.
>    Example, lets say I need to upgrade Gimp from 2.8 (in stable) to 2.10 (in
>    Testing).If I go to [1]https://backports.debian.org/Packages/ I can verify
>    that 2.10 is indeed in testing.
>    I run this:
>    apt -t stretch-backports install gimp
>    And my newly installed Debian 9.9 replies:
>    gimp is already the newest version (2.8.18-1+deb9u1).
>    0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 153 not upgraded.
>    Which is of course WRONG, because we just looked in Packages and verified
>    that 2.10 is in testing.
>    What can I do to install Gimp 2.10 from testing?

Testing and backports are two different things.  There is no Gimp
package currently in backports.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sánchez

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Re: cannot install from backports Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2019-06-25 22:10 +0200
  Re: cannot install from backports Brian Cary <briancary@gmail.com> - 2019-06-26 12:30 +0200
    Re: cannot install from backports Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2019-06-26 12:40 +0200
    Re: cannot install from backports john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2019-06-26 13:50 +0200
      Re: cannot install from backports Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-06-26 14:30 +0200

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