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Re: apt-get? non stable debs?



On Sun, 2002-06-30 at 00:36, Mike Egglestone wrote:
> Hi,
> What would one do if they were running a "stable" box, and wanted
> a package that was only offered in "testing" or "unstable"?
> 
> Would you edit your sources.list to point to "testing"...
> apt-get update
> apt-get install packagename
> edit sources.list back to "stable"...
> apt-get update
> 
> Is there a better way to achieve this?

Sure, just download the particular deb you want for the release that you
want from packages.debian.org. Then just use dpkg to install them.

-Alex

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