[plug] Unstable for Debian

Craig Ringer craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Fri Jan 31 13:40:49 WST 2003


>>How can i get unstable packages for debian? That is if they aren't in 
>>the stable realeas. I wish to update KDE and Kmerlin, the latter is more 
>>important, but some packages i can't get as there is no install 
>>candidate or something.
> 
> Add an unstable source to your /etc/apt/source.list AFTER the stable
> source line - then apt-get update.   Source lines are treated in order
> from top to bottom so stable will still be the default

man apt_preferences for a very powerful alternative to this. If only it 
was better documented...

Craig



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