Re: apt-get unstable question

2003-11-13 Thread ScruLoose
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 03:25:07PM -0600, Rick Weinbender wrote: > I found a good beginners link to pinning. > http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html (please don't top-post. It's bad for the readability of a thread, and is considered bad manners) I really think if it's a simple one-packa

Re: apt-get unstable question

2003-11-13 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Thursday 13 November 2003 20:00, Rick Weinbender wrote: > I'm running the current stable version > and I need to install a package from > an unstable source (tmda ver.0.86). > (the unstable package does work with woody). Not really an answer to your question, but have you checked for backports

Re: apt-get unstable question

2003-11-13 Thread Rick Weinbender
I found a good beginners link to pinning. http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html Thanks, -Rick *** Greg Madden wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 13 November 2003 10:00 am, Rick Weinbender wrote: > > I'm running the current stable

Re: apt-get unstable question

2003-11-13 Thread Rick Weinbender
I did try editing my sources.list file, (commenting out all stable sources, then adding 2 lines of unstable) then running apt-get update. This seems to work when I run 'apt-get install tmda'. But, When I put back my old stable sources.list the way it was and run apt-get update, I get lots of error

Re: apt-get unstable question

2003-11-13 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 13 November 2003 10:00 am, Rick Weinbender wrote: > I'm running the current stable version > and I need to install a package from > an unstable source (tmda ver.0.86). > (the unstable package does work with woody). > * > Is there a way to i

Re: apt-get unstable question

2003-11-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Rick Weinbender wrote: I'm running the current stable version and I need to install a package from an unstable source (tmda ver.0.86). (the unstable package does work with woody). * Is there a way to install an unstable package on stable distro from the command line. * Someone suggested 'apt-get -t

Re: apt-get unstable question

2003-11-13 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Rick Weinbender" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm running the current stable version > and I need to install a package from > an unstable source (tmda ver.0.86). > (the unstable package does work with woody). > * > Is there a way to install an unstable package on > stable distro from the command

Re: apt-get unstable question

2003-11-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 01:00:36PM -0600, Rick Weinbender wrote: > I'm running the current stable version > and I need to install a package from > an unstable source (tmda ver.0.86). > (the unstable package does work with woody). > * > Is there a way to install an unstable package on > stable distr

apt-get unstable question

2003-11-13 Thread Rick Weinbender
I'm running the current stable version and I need to install a package from an unstable source (tmda ver.0.86). (the unstable package does work with woody). * Is there a way to install an unstable package on stable distro from the command line. * Someone suggested 'apt-get -t unstable install tmda'