Re: how to obtain pkg not available for my version (jessie)

[berenger.morel@neutralite.org]

Le 08.07.2014 15:45, Harry Putnam a écrit :
> How does one obtain pkgs (encfs in this case) that are not available
> to an `aptitude' search of pkgs for jessie?
>
> It appears that the pkg in question (encfs) is available for wheezy.
>
>   https://packages.debian.org/stable/encfs
>
> So how to get to it, without jacking up my sources.list or some other
> pitfall?
>
> My current sources.list:
>
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main
> deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main
> deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main
> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main
> deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie-backports main
> deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie-backports main

jessie-updates and backports does not exists, because jessie is the 
current testing. Wheezy, on the other hand, is the current stable, so it 
have those repos.

Anyway, what I would do in your situation would be to enable wheezy 
only with deb-src, and then following this article: 
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/20