[plug] apt-get

[Jeremy Malcolm]

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> Is there any way to tell apt-get to retrieve a certain version of a
> package? I have it set up at the moment to use packages from the
> stable distribution, but i want to install mysql-2.23 which is in
> the unstable distribution.

Either temporarily comment out the stable lines from
/etc/apt/sources.list and leave the unstable lines in there, or else
just download it manually and use dpkg -i instead of apt-get.

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