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 -- Primary key fingerprint: AD8F BDC0 5A2C FD5F A179 60E7 F79B AB04 5299 EC56
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