Re: how to get k3b back in testing (yes, this sounds familiar)

["H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com>]

kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> H.S. wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> So, while Testing is going through this whole lot of transition to newer
>> packages (KDE 3.4 and Gcc 4.0), I am holding off dist-upgrading it. But
>> yesterday, to experiment to see what happens to held back packages if
>> k3b is not present, I removed k3b. Saw nothing much has changed so did
>> not upgrade at all. So, to get k3b back, what do I do? I know it is not
>> there anymore in Testing. Where can I find it's last deb package for
>> Testing?
>>
>> ->HS
>>  
>>
> Just briefly change your sources to unstable, install k3b, change the
> sources back to testing after that. This is a workaround and is not the
> most elegant solution out there. You might also take a look at
> apt-pinning - which has its own advantages and disadvantages...
> 
> bye
> raju
> 
> 

I guess installing k3b from unstable is not going to work. It needs a
whole lot of other packages from unstable to do this. I used "apt-get -t
unstable -s install k3b" to try this out.

So, I guess the safest bet would be to get the k3b.deb package that was
in testing from someplace.


->HS