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Re: "pinning" a package



On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 08:52:27AM -0500, John Klassa wrote:
> I tried to follow the directions, with respect to "pinning" a particular
> package.  Specifically, I went to the main debian site and poked around
> in the package list, and found that "gnump3d" is available in the
> "testing" tree (or whatever the correct terminology is[1]).
> 
> 	http://packages.debian.org/testing/sound/gnump3d.html
> 
> Anyway, I tried "apt-get install gnump3d/testing", but got no matches.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?

Have you edited both apt_preferences (to add the pinning info) and
source.list (to tell apt about testing)?

-rob

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