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Re: apt-get unstable question



On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 03:25:07PM -0600, Rick Weinbender wrote:

> I found a good beginners link to pinning.
> http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html

(please don't top-post.  It's bad for the readability of a thread, and
is considered bad manners)

I really think if it's a simple one-package situation, you'd be much
better off listening to Colin Watson and just downloading the deb
somewhere and installing it with dpkg -i
Or look for a backport of the package. I love backports myself.

Pinning is powerful and dangerous and if you use it wrong you can end up
with an incredible mess of dependency problems.

	Cheers!
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