Re: how to install testing/unstable packages
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On Wednesday 14 January 2004 08:42 am, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> Dear All,
> i'm new to debian. Recently I strongly made up my mind to leave
> Redhat/Fedora and be a user of Debian. I'm pretty happy with it's
> structure and utilities. I'm also glad to see the release structure
> (stable, testing, unstable) which suits to the taste of every user.
>
> 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 outdated.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
>
> plz give a brief overview.
>
> ritesh
If you want to keep a Woody system intact, you need to use backports of
whatever packages you want, packages compiled with the Woody
developement environment. There is a kde.org source that will give you
KDE 3.1.4 compiled for Woody. This is, may be close to a concensus, the
best way to get newer packages for Woody.
This may be the current site for KDE.
http://ftp.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/Debian woody main
Another backport site I have had good luck with is :
deb http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian woody/bunk-1 main contrib non-free
HTH
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Greg Madden
Debian GNU/Linux
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