Re: Help using Apt-Get
On Monday 16 August 2004 14:19, David Bokan wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am new to Debian (three or so days now)
> I have a question, I'm using the Woody release of Debian (3.0) and I want
> to get KDE3 (and some other recent packages) but in order to do that I have
> to get packages from the testing release, however, I am unsure of how to do
> this. I googled it and found something about Pinning and followed the
> instructions (created a preferences file and put some stuff in there) and
> it doesn't work. Here's the entry I put in the sources file (that's
> probably the problem):
Pinning is mostly useless ... the only thing I can think of that it's good for
is SOURCES for the odd *trivial* package that you might want to build on
stable. But for something like KDE, forget it. With pinning you can grab
the source (apt-get src) and compile for stable, and the only advantage this
has over "tarballs in /usr/local" is that you meet dependencies.
Binaries from testing -> stable will almost never work.
Pinning can work (sort of) if all you want is the latest version of tcpdump,
oggenc or something like that.
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