On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 02:03:09PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > H.S. wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> So, while Testing is going through this whole lot of transition to newer > >> packages (KDE 3.4 and Gcc 4.0), I am holding off dist-upgrading it. But > >> yesterday, to experiment to see what happens to held back packages if > >> k3b is not present, I removed k3b. Saw nothing much has changed so did > >> not upgrade at all. So, to get k3b back, what do I do? I know it is not > >> there anymore in Testing. Where can I find it's last deb package for > >> Testing? > >> > >> ->HS > >> > >> > > Just briefly change your sources to unstable, install k3b, change the > > sources back to testing after that. This is a workaround and is not the > > most elegant solution out there. You might also take a look at > > apt-pinning - which has its own advantages and disadvantages... > > > > bye > > raju > > > > > > I guess installing k3b from unstable is not going to work. It needs a > whole lot of other packages from unstable to do this. I used "apt-get -t > unstable -s install k3b" to try this out. > > So, I guess the safest bet would be to get the k3b.deb package that was > in testing from someplace. >
You can try looking at snapshot.debian.net. You can also grab the sources (the .dsc, .diff.gz and .orig.tar.gz) from Sid and backport them. You can use by Debian package customization HOWTO as a guide: http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto/howtos/debcustomize Backporting is basically a recompile from a newer release to an older release. This occasionally necessitates some tweaking of build-dependencies. However, this is normally not necassry, unless somehting like a C++ ABI trasition has occurred. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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