RE: Selective upgrades

["Daniel L. Miller" <dmiller@amfes.com>]

I assume I need to place those lines AFTER my stable lines?  If I want
everything else by default to work with Woody/stable?

Daniel

-----Original Message-----
From: Russell Shaw [mailto:rjshaw@iprimus.com.au] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 6:26 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Selective upgrades

Daniel L. Miller wrote:
> What's the best way to selectively upgrade certain packages?  If, for
> example, I want to use the latest X, KDE, or GhostScript from sid, and
> I'm currently running Woody - how do I update those packages without
> compromising my system?

If by not compromising you mean simply not breaking it, then add testing
and unstable lines to /etc/apt/sources.list, then apt-get update, then
apt-get install <package>/[testing|unstable].


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