Re: unstable package install into testing
On Wed, 2001-09-19 at 02:02, joe golden wrote:
> I have downloaded the unstable version of abiword into my home
directory. I
> would like to install this on my testing system. I believe all
dependencies
> for the unstable version (0.9.0-0.1) are met.
>
> How do I do the install? Do i need to put unstable in the
sources.list?
> This is the only package I need from unstable.
>
> As root I copied the .deb into /var/cache/apt/archives and then tried
> apt-get install abiword=0.9.0-0.1.
> This gave me "E: Version '0.9.0-0.1' for 'abiword' was not found."
>
> Many thanks in advance.
If all dependencies have REALLY been met it would be far simpler to
simply dpkg -i (complete name of abiword .deb). Personally I prefer to
rebuild against my system:
apt-get source abiword
You have to put a line in your /etc/apt/sources.list pointing to
unstable as a "deb-src"
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