On Sun, 2002-06-30 at 00:36, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Hi, > What would one do if they were running a "stable" box, and wanted > a package that was only offered in "testing" or "unstable"? > > Would you edit your sources.list to point to "testing"... > apt-get update > apt-get install packagename > edit sources.list back to "stable"... > apt-get update > > Is there a better way to achieve this?
Sure, just download the particular deb you want for the release that you want from packages.debian.org. Then just use dpkg to install them. -Alex
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