RE: Is it possible to install a few testing packages on a stable machine?
Stan,
Here's a cut-and-paste-and-slightly-edited version of what I found about
almost the same question I asked on this reflector a week or two ago (see
thread "RE: cproto.deb for potato not available?"):
Scheme using newer version of apt-get than you probably have:
It seems the /etc/apt/preferences file is a feature not yet in the stable
release of apt-get (version 0.3.19). I found some information about the
preferences file in a how-to document based on version 0.5.3 (chapter 3 of
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/), although I was still a little
unclear about how to selectively upgrade a package using this feature. My
guess is to use the example in the document for how to downgrade all
packages to the stable release versions, then insert a specific entry for
the latest version of, in my case, cproto.
This is what I did to grab the cproto package from the unstable distribution
(a little lower-level, but not too bad once in awhile). Hopefully the
upgraded package you'll see in #3 won't be a package that will break other
things it depends on if you upgrade it.
1. Added following line to sources.list:
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
2. apt-get -s update
The -s (=--dry_run) above seemed to have no effect because the cproto
package *was* found in the next step (without update it is not found).
3. apt-get -s install cproto
This showed me that apt-get would not upgrade or install any new packages
except for cproto.
4. apt-get install cproto
This installed the new package.
5. Commented out the line added in #1
I did this so that the next 'apt-get upgrade' won't upgrade me to the
unstable release of all the packages I have installed.
-Kris
-----Original Message-----
From: Stan Brown [mailto:stanb@awod.com]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 1:16 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Is it possible to install a few testing packages on a stable
machine?
I'm trying to get abcde to work. Turns out that the version I have (from
progen) is broken. The developers of this package say the version in testing
is fine. Probelm is it depends on one more package from testing.
Is there a way I can get this to work?
If so, how?
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