Re: Pinning unstable

[Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic@dantian.org>]

On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 18:17, Dave Carrigan wrote:

> When you need to install a package from unstable:
> 
>   apt-get install pkgname/testing
> 
> This will "unpin" the specified package and install the version from
> testing.
> 
> If apt complains about dependencies, you sometimes have to do
> 
>   apt-get install pkgname/testing dependency/testing

First, slight correction: of course, if you want a deb from _unstable_,
you say

	apt-get install pkgname/unstable (not .../testing)

A handy switch is 

	apt-get -t unstable install pkgname

with -t being "target-release" or something. This will get pkgname _and_
its dependencies from unstable. Preferable to

	apt-get install pkgname/unstable dependency-1/unstable
	dependency-2/unstable etc.



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