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Re: woody apt: dowloading from different releases



Bruce Miller <bruce.miller@ottawa.com> wrote:

> I am running Libranet 1.191 updated to woody with KDE from sid. 
> The version of apt in woody has been 0.5.3; as of yesterday, it 
> upgraded to 0.5.4.
>
> This version of apt has a feature to download a file from a different 
> release without changing /etc/apt/sources.list. 
[snip]

> So far, it is not working. If I try to update an existing application, I 
> get the error message: Release "unstable" for "foobar" was not 
> found

Does `apt-get -t release install package' work?

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