> > I have downloaded the unstable version of abiword into my home directory.
> > I
> > would like to install this on my testing system. I believe all
> > dependencies
> > for the unstable version (0.9.0-0.1) are met.
> >
> > How do I do the install? Do i need to put unstable in the sources.list?
> > This is the only package I need from unstable.
> >
> > As root I copied the .deb into /var/cache/apt/archives and then tried
> > apt-get install abiword=0.9.0-0.1.
> > This gave me "E: Version '0.9.0-0.1' for 'abiword' was not found."
> >
> > Many thanks in advance.
> >
>
>
> One way is, as root:
>
> dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/abiword
>
Of course this should have been
dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/abiword*.deb
Note that with dpkg the deb can be put anywhere on the file system. Just
change /var/cache/apt/archives/ to the appropriate path.
>
> > Joe Golden
> > The Stevens School of Peacham
> > thestevensschoolofpeacham.com
> >
> >
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