On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 09:08:23AM -0700, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: > > Debian users, > > Is there an entry for sources.list to allow apt to get a package > from an older or newer distribution when it is absent from the > distribution installed. > > Specifically, I have Lenny on a machine and find that vlc is > not available. Would be convenient for apt to automatically > revert to etch.
For that you need etch in your sources list ;) $cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.ro.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib deb http://ftp.ro.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb http://ftp.ro.debian.org/debian/ sid main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.ro.debian.org/debian/ sid main non-free contrib deb http://ftp.ro.debian.org/debian/ experimental main non-free contrib deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main # vlc repo (fb support?) #deb http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sid main # Opera repo deb http://deb.opera.com/opera unstable non-free Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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