Daniel L. Miller wrote:
-----Original Message-----From: Russell Shaw [mailto:rjshaw@iprimus.com.au] Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 6:26 PMTo: 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].
> I assume I need to place those lines AFTER my stable lines? If I want > everything else by default to work with Woody/stable? It doesn't matter what the order is. Here's a post from a couple of days ago: To be able to install stuff from testing and unstable, put in /etc/apt/sources.list: <choose a mirror for your location> deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free Put in /etc/apt/apt.conf: APT::Default-Release "stable"; < you could use testing or unstable > APT::Cache-Limit 10000000; Now do: apt-get update to rebuild the package indexes. If you use Default-Release=stable, then you can do: apt-get install -t testing <package> If you use Default-Release=testing, then you don't need the -t option. Likewise for unstable.