Re: Installing packages from unstable version
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 02:05:29AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 14:25:54 -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> > Leave off the hyphenated version number which is not part of the
> > "proper" package name.
> >
> > $ apt-get install libgtk2.0
>
> It doesn't work.
?
> I've now modified the sources.list as I've been told (I've *added*
> unstable versions of the lines). But now, "apt-get -s upgrade"
> shows upgrades to unstable packages. I still want the "testing"
> distribution (except the above package, which doesn't exist in
> this distribution). I don't understand, because this is the
> distribution I chose during the first Debian installation.
Well, libgtk2.0 and friends (which there are several) are only in
unstable, AFAIK. Maybe you want "apt-get -t testing ..." to prevent
everthing being upgraded? Haven't used it myself...
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Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
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