On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Robin Rowe wrote: > I have some apps I want to build that require newer libs than what I have > installed from stable. How do I tell dselect/apt/dpkg to let me pick the > newer SDL lib (for instance) out of tested, bring with it any dependent libs > (which may also be in tested), but not make a change to newer packages > across the board?
Add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb-src ftp://ftp.xxx.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free (replace the "xxx" with the country code for your latest mirror, e.g. I use "de") then do an apt-get install libsdl1.1-dev > Related question, if I did want to upgrade across the board to woody, how > would I do that? apt-get -u dist-upgrade > Thanks! > > Robin cu, Adrian -- Nicht weil die Dinge schwierig sind wagen wir sie nicht, sondern weil wir sie nicht wagen sind sie schwierig.
