Re: getting experimental .deb's

[Travis Crump <pretzalz@techhouse.org>]

David Wright wrote:
> > 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).

apt-get won't do that, give it some credit. :)  Experimental has a pin 
of 1 by default(installed packages have a pin of 100) so apt-get will 
only get packages from there if a)that is the only place they exist or 
b) you explicitly request the package be taken from experimental.


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