Re: Adding an unstable package
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 17:58:31 -0400, Doug Jolley <doug@footech.com> wrote:
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> Hi --
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> I've been playing around with Linux for some time; but, I'm
> very new to Debian.
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> I have installed the stable version of Debian. However, I
> really need a more current version of Exim. I'd like to
> install the exim4-daemon-heavy package which is in the
> testing tree. I added:
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> deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
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> to /etc/apt/sources.list and then ran apt-get as follows:
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If you do this, all your system will become SID, aka Debian unstable.
If you only want to use an unstable/testing package you have two path,
look if someone has done what is called a "backport" (you can look at
www.apt-get.org) or you can compile from the Debian source. With the
APT tools it's simpler that what can sound.
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> apt-get install exim4-daemon-heavy
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> I got an error which I'll append to this message.
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The error message is because you don't have refreshed the package
lists. You should have used "apt-get update" before the install, but
beware, in this way you'll move practically all your packages to
SID... =)
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If you are new to Debian, i suggest you to lurk/look in this list and
this list archive, or you can look for the official documentation.
There's a lot of web pages targeted at Debian newcomers...
Andrea
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