Re: What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?
Aniruddha wrote:
> I would like to install the latest version swfdec-mozilla (because it
> offers autoplay). I intent to track stable as closely as possible. As
> far I can tell there are four possibilities to achieve this:
>
> 1) Temporary enable testing/unstable repositories and install the program
> 2) Download *.deb from packages.debian org
> 3) Use apt-pinning
> 4) Compile from source, this requires option 1 to be enabled.
I use apt-pinning and it works really well. I followed the Debian apt-pinning
howto and now run a mix of Testing and Unstable.
http://wiki.debian.org/AptPinning
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J
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