Re: apt-get source question

[Stephen Cormier <s.cormier@gmx.net>]

On Monday 31 July 2006 14:10, Pollywog wrote:
> I looked in the APT tutorial and also in a book but I could not find an
> answer to this problem.
>
> I want to get a source package from the "testing" release, not from
> "stable", so I did this:
>
> apt-get -t testing source <packagename>
>
> It does not seem to work.  Is there a way to do this without temporarily
> modifying the sources.list in order to get the desired sources?

Try apt-get source packagename=1.2.3-4  use whatever the version number is for 
testing.

Stephen

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