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Re: getting experimental .deb's



This one time, at band camp, David Wright said:
> 
> > Insert these into /etc/apt/sources.list
> 
> To re-iterate what was in the original post: I DO NOT WANT TO MODIFY MY
> APT SOURCES. I don't want apt-get trying to download all the stuff in
> experimental because it has higher version numbers. I want to get a
> single, individual package using wget (or similiar).

Sorry, I missed your original post.  You can use pinning to keep from
upgrading everything to experimental if you do modify your apt sources,
or you can just look through the Packages file to ind the actual
location of the file your looking for, e.g:
steve:~$ grep eog2.*.deb
/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_.._project_experimental_main_binary-i386_Packages 
Filename: pool/main/e/eog2/eog2_1.0.1-2_i386.deb

This is after an apt-get update, but you can download the Packages file
and grep it that way, if you prefer.  Then you can wget or ftp the deb
you want.

HTH,
Steve

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