Re: how to install testing/unstable packages
Sometime near Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:12:35PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> the stable release seems rock solid. but packages like kde are very
> outdated. how do i upgrade the kde packages (testing release). what lines
> do i need to add into my /etc/apt/sources.list
/etc/apt/sources.list
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deb http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
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However you will want to replace wa.au.debian.org with you closest
mirror :)
after that run
$ apt-get update
and you will have a nice lot of unstable packages to choose from
PS: i think you could try apt-get upgrade to re-install new versions of
what you currently have. Not to sure though :)
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Cheers,
rinmak <rinmak@technine.org>
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