KDE3 for testing

["Sridhar M.A." <mas@uomphysics.net>]

Hi,

I am trying to install KDE3 under testing and facing some problems. My
/etc/apt/sources.list has the following entries:

  deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free

  # MPlayer
  deb http://marillat.free.fr/ testing main
  deb http://mplayer.nmeos.net testing/

  deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main

  # KDE3.0
  deb http://kde3.geniussystems.net/debian ./

/etc/apt/prefrences looks like this

  Package: *
  Pin: release a=testing
  Pin-Priority: 900

  Package: *
  Pin: release a=unstable
  Pin-Priority: 95

I did apt-get update first. When I do apt-get upgrade, kde3 packages are
not being upgraded.  apt-cache show kdebase lists the new versions of
the packages. 

  brahman:/etc/apt# apt-cache show kdebase
  Package: kdebase
  Version: 4:3.0.2-0
  Priority: optional
  Section: utils
  Maintainer: Christopher L Cheney <ccheney@debian.org>
  Depends: kaddressbook (= 4:3.0.2-0), kappfinder (= 4:3.0.2-0), kate (=
    4:3.0.2-0), kcontrol (= 4:3.0.2-0), kdcop (= 4:3.0.2-0),
    kdebase-bin (= 4:3.0.2-0), kdebase-data (= 4:3.0.2-0), kdebugdialog (=
    4:3.0.2-0), kdeprint (= 4:3.0.2-0), kdesktop (= 4:3.0.2-0), kfind (=
    4:3.0.2-0), khelpcenter (= 4:3.0.2-0), khotkeys (= 4:3.0.2-0), kicker (=
    4:3.0.2-0), kioslave (= 4:3.0.2-0), klipper (= 4:3.0.2-0), kmenuedit (=
    4:3.0.2-0), konqueror-nsplugins (= 4:3.0.2-0), konqueror (= 4:3.0.2-0), konsole
    (= 4:3.0.2-0), kpager (= 4:3.0.2-0), kpersonalizer (= 4:3.0.2-0), kscreensaver
    (= 4:3.0.2-0), ksmserver (= 4:3.0.2-0), ksplash (= 4:3.0.2-0), ksysguard (=
    4:3.0.2-0), ktip (= 4:3.0.2-0), kwin (= 4:3.0.2-0), kxkb (= 4:3.0.2-0),
    libkonq4 (= 4:3.0.2-0)
  Recommends: kdm (= 4:3.0.2-0), xfonts-konsole (= 4:3.0.2-0) 
  Architecture: all
  Filename: ./kdebase/kdebase_3.0.2-0_all.deb 
  Size: 15686 
  MD5sum: f5f0e7256f3105b60004e5bad6000c0a 
  Description: KDE Base metapackage 
   KDE Base metapackage 
  installed-size: 52

  Package: kdebase
  Priority: optional
  Section: x11
  Installed-Size: 16256
  Maintainer: Christopher L Cheney <ccheney@debian.org>
  Architecture: i386
  Version: 4:2.2.2-14
  Provides: x-session-manager
  Depends: kdelibs3 (>= 4:2.2.2-1), libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libfam0, libjpeg62,
    libkonq3 (>= 4:2.2.2-14), libpng2(>=1.0.12), libqt2 (>= 3:2.3.1-1),
    libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 (>= 1:2.95.4-0.010810), xlibs (>> 4.1.0), zlib1g (>=
    1:1.1.3), debianutils (>= 1.6), xfree86-common, libpam-modules, kdewallpapers,
    kdebase-libs (= 4:2.2.2-14)
  Recommends: kdebase-doc, konqueror, konsole, kate | kedit | kword, libarts |
    libarts-alsa, kdebase-audiolibs | kdebase3-audiolibs, kscreensaver
  Suggests: menu (>=1.5-5), kdm | x-display-manager, kde-i18n, libpam-cracklib,
    xscreensaver, xscreensaver-gl, xearth, xplanet, usbutils
  Filename: pool/main/k/kdebase/kdebase_2.2.2-14_i386.deb
  Size: 6486216
  MD5sum: 21c35b51c47455c252be9db3294f46e9
  Description: KDE core applications
   This is a suite of all kde core applications :
   Includes:  kicker, kwin, kdesktop and others...
  Task: desktop

Since this branch is marked neither as testing nor as unstable, how do I tell
apt-get to fetch the packages from this branch and install them? My attempt at 
apt-get -t . install kdebase3 did not yield any results :-(

Regards,

-- 
Sridhar M.A.

Depart not from the path which fate has assigned you.