Re: apt_preferences

[dman <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 08:19:56AM +1100, Stephen Brown wrote:
| Hi All, 
| 
| I do not know if I am just lazy or whatever, but the apt_preferences man page makes no sense to me.
| 
| How do I get a stable distrribution of debian except for the latest unstable version of gnucash? 

----- /etc/apt/preferences
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 900

Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 500

Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 95
------

    # apt-get update
    # apt-get install gnucash/unstable


HTH,
-D