Re: Installing individual unstable packages

["Thomas J. Hamman" <hawk3@eagnet.com>]

On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 02:45:05PM +1000, paul@netwise.net.au wrote:
> 
> Hi Guys,
> 
> What is the best practise for obtaining and installing the odd
> unstable package in to a stable system?

Hmm I think there was a thread on that very recently... I think the best
answer was:

Make your /etc/apt/sources.list point to stable for binary packages
and unstable for source packages.  Then you can download and compile a
source package from unstable with apt-get.

-- 
Tom
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