On Sun, 2002-06-30 at 13:36, 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 The surest way to do such (without upgrading to the testing/unstable distributions) is to grab the source code + diffs + dsc file for that package, edit the control file et. al (to satisfy the dependencies), then compile it (via dpkg-buildpackage). Note that you might need to backport a number of packages just to achieve this feat (I did this when I backported PHP4.2 from unstable to stable. Darn too many packages that needs to be backported). -- -->paolo Paolo Alexis Falcone pfalcone@free.net.ph GnuPG KeyID 0xEADFF6F4 Tel# (632)6429577 Fax# (632)6429561 Mobile# +639174379283 ___________________________________________________________________ "You are a software developer. On the cutting edge. You need the latest and greatest in computer technology. That's why you use, uh, Unix. Yeah. Anyway, even if your operating system harks back to the 1960s, you definitely can't live without the most modern software development and management systems available" -- quote adapted
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