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Re: using unstable package on testing?



On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:18:41PM +0200, Jeroen Valcke wrote:
> Weird, Licq is available as a package in unstable and in stable, but not
> in testing. My question what's the best thing to do to install this on a
> Debian testing system? Is it possible to select some package from
> unstable and install them on a testing machine?

You have two choices here: you can manually download the unstable
package and install it (and all its' dependencies) using dpkg or you
can use a new feature of apt, called 'pinning'.  Basically, it lets
you use two different distributions

> I once installed realplayer but I never figured out how to install it
> system-wide? Somebody who has tips on installing this piece of software.

Really?  The realplayer package installed it just fine for me.
Available to all users, as far as I can tell.
Could you elaborate?

-rob

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