On Monday 16 August 2004 14:19, David Bokan wrote: > Hello all, > > I am new to Debian (three or so days now) > I have a question, I'm using the Woody release of Debian (3.0) and I want > to get KDE3 (and some other recent packages) but in order to do that I have > to get packages from the testing release, however, I am unsure of how to do > this. I googled it and found something about Pinning and followed the > instructions (created a preferences file and put some stuff in there) and > it doesn't work. Here's the entry I put in the sources file (that's > probably the problem):
Pinning is mostly useless ... the only thing I can think of that it's good for is SOURCES for the odd *trivial* package that you might want to build on stable. But for something like KDE, forget it. With pinning you can grab the source (apt-get src) and compile for stable, and the only advantage this has over "tarballs in /usr/local" is that you meet dependencies. Binaries from testing -> stable will almost never work. Pinning can work (sort of) if all you want is the latest version of tcpdump, oggenc or something like that. -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ ( t | i | m | @ | i | t | . | k | p | t | . | c | c ) \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ GPG key fingerprint = 1DEE CD9B 4808 F608 FBBF DC21 2807 D7D3 09CA 85BF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
