RE: Going Debian: advice request
The way I do it if I want an unstable package is to add unstable to my
sources.list,
apt-get update
apt-get install <package> -s
If all looks OK then I go ahead and do it. Sometimes it will want to
upgrade a whole lot of stuff, in which case I don't do it.
Tim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gregory Guthrie [SMTP:gguthrie@mum.edu]
> Sent: mmmm112000 4:59 PM
> To: redwards@golgotha.net
> Cc: rcanet@ivia.es; debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Going Debian: advice request
>
> At 04:43 PM 12/11/2000 -0500, Randy Edwards wrote:
> > > but I´d like to have some packages in more bleeding-edge versions.
> > > Any problem about that? Should I install woody instead if I intend
> > > to use non-stable packages?
> >
> > Woody's definitely unstable...
>
> -- Second that. I have had two installs (upgrades potato -> woody) trip
> over their own dependencies and fail.
>
> A real waste of time!
>
> Good luck.
>
> Gregory
>
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