Re: vlc form testing in stable
On 01/20/2012 01:08 PM, Maroš Žilka wrote:
Hi,
I am running Debian stable and I want to install vlc from testing. So I
added testing to sources.list then I updated with aptitude update and
finally I wanted to install vlc with
# aptitude install -t testing vlc/testing
but there was hundreds of problems. In apt.conf is default distribution
stable. Am I Doing something wrong or it is just like it is and I can
not easily have vlc from testing in stable.
Thanks,
Maros.
Cerntanly you are doing several things wrong.
- apt-get install vlc/testing:
Will only pull vlc package from testing
- apt-get install -t testing vlc:
will pull dependencies from testing as well (<-- my prefered way to
avoid problems IMHO)
- you have to manually asign a priority those sources... If all have
the same priority, it will pull the newest source (aka, download
everything from now on from testing)
for example i have this file to give wheezy more priority than to lets
say, sid...
cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/wheezy:
Package: *
Pin: release n=wheezy
Pin-Priority: 900
Package: *
Pin: release n=sid
Pin-Priority: 800
and to finish, a very useful command when you mess with different
versions in debian
apt-cache policy <package>
greets!
aL
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