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Re: Alternate Debian Sources



On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 09:31:27PM +1200, Sam Minnee wrote:
> I'm a relatively new Debian user, and while I love the simplicity of getting
> everything working that comes from really thoroughly testing the programs,
> sometimes it would be nice to get later versions of software - eg, php
> 4.3.0.  Currently unstable only includes 4.2.3.

See http://www.apt-get.org/

There are a whole bunch of unofficial apt sources out there.  You can,
for example, get up to date KDE for stable straight from
downloads.kde.org.  Lots of backports are up there, as well.

Sometimes it can get annoying if you later want to remove the unofficial
stuff and replace it with something official, but it can always be done.

noah

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