On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 05:40:24PM +0000, James Allsopp wrote:
> Hello,
> Is there an easy way of installing a package (namely virtinst) from
> Wheezy in Squeeze? I've tried variations of
> aptitude install -t wheezy virtinst
> and
> aptitude install virtinst/wheezy
>
> but with no joy, It goes through the start process but says there's
> nothing to update or upgrade
> Thanks,
> James
You need to have some repo defined under /etc/apt/sources.list{,d/}
such as your query works.
I usually have the precompiled binaries in one repo and the sources
in another, to ease backporting:
deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ sid main non-free contrib
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