Re: installing non-"stable" packages and software
Salute to the brave soul :)
On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 01:28:17AM -0800, Adam wrote:
> I duplicated the entries in my sources.list and replaced "stable" with
> "unstable" in the new entries and everything worked great.
Hmm, you found this now and running unstable.
> Gnome 2.0 looks and works much better than the old (probably
> mis-installed) version.
You are lucky. Running unstable is fun but risky business.
Get insurance like apt_preferences(5), APT-HOWTO or Chapter 6 of my
"Debian Reference" at below URL.
I am worried about you system.
Cheers
Osamu
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