Re: testing + some unstable packages
On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 12:38:28PM -0800, Alan Su wrote:
> i've got an installation of testing on my laptop, but i wanted to
> upgrade a few packages (notably galeon) to the unstable version. i'd
> rather not just point apt to the unstable distribution, as i'm pretty
> happy with the way testing is working out for me.
>
> in order to do this, i'm manually using dpkg to install packages that
> i download from the unstable distribution. however, for this to work,
> i need to upgrade a bunch of other packages on which these few
> packages depend. is there a way to determine the set of packages
> which must be installed (from the unstable distribution) before i go
> about installing the packages i want? thanks for any ideas you might
> have!
Put both testing and unstable in sources.list, then tell apt-get to use
testing by default by putting this in /etc/apt/apt.conf:
Apt::Default-Release "testing";
Then, when you want to intall something from unstable (e.g., galeon),
say (after apt-get update'ing of course):
apt-get -t unstable install galeon
That's it. You may want to see what will be installed from unstable
first using the -s flag.
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Note that I use Debian version 3.0
Linux mus 2.4.17mvz4 #1 Fri Mar 15 23:30:15 CET 2002 i686 unknown
Matijs
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