[plug] Cups & Debian

[Adam Hewitt]

Without actually giving you the info you are after, if you add the
stable, testing and unstable sources to your /etc/apt/sources.list file,
you can then add:

APT::Default-Release "stable";

to your /etc/apt/apt.conf file and then run

apt-get install -t unstable cupsys (or whatever) and it will pull the
chosen package(s) from unstable, but all dependencies will come from
woody, unless they are required from testing or unstable. This then
allows you to have a woody system with chosen/required testing and
unstable packages.

Keep in mind that apt shits itself with too many sources so you may need
to add:

APT::Cache Limit 10000000;

to your /etc/apt/apt.conf file as well.

Adam.

On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 12:22, laurie anderson wrote:
>    Howdy,
>    Having built a Debian 3.0 on a fairly new Machine I would like to
>    install Cups which version though ??? 
>    Even though Cups version 1.1.19 is included with unstable will this version
>    run happly with Woody.
>    I assumeit is a fairly straight foreward install ???