[olug] hint: debian apt, upgrade mixed software

[ktb]

On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 04:30:31PM -0500, Brian Wiese wrote:
> Just thought I'd share something that I finally figured out with debian
> apt, and have been wanting to do for quite a while... install packages in
> debian from different distributions (stable/testing/unstable) while
> maintaining the rest of my system.
> 

When I want an unstable package to run on say testing I will change my
src line in /etc/apt/sources.list to unstable and run -

# apt-get update
# apt-get -b source <package_name>

This doesn't always work due to dependencies but I have had it work when
I couldn't install the unstable .deb package.  The above command will
download source, and build a .deb package.
kent

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