RE: how to install a testing package?

["Julian Mehnle" <lists@mehnle.net>]

hendrik@pooq.com wrote:
> I shouldn't have to ask this question, but I do.  It's probably all in
> the documentation somewhere, but I'm a Debian newbie and I still can't
> find my way around properly. 
> 
> I have just installed the stable debian release woody from CD-ROMs, my
> first experience with debian, and I have found it a success.  I
> especially liked app-get and its friends.
> 
> Now there's a package (twiki) in the testing distribution I'd like to
> install.  It doesn't appear on the CDROMs, presumably because they are
> just the stable release. 
> 
> How do I go about it, so that it will be properly downloaded to the
> proper place, installed properly, and I retain a copy of the package in
> case I need to do it again?  Do I need to set up my own patial mirror on
> my hard disk somewhere? 

There are to ways to accomplish this:

1. via /etc/apt/preferences:
   `man apt_preferences`
   http://www.argon.org/~roderick/apt-pinning.html

2. via the Apt option APT::Default-Release:
   http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html#s-default-version

Good luck,
Julian.