[Gllug] Debian versions

[Adam Bower]

Jonathan Dye wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently running debian woody but I want to install a couple of
> packages from testing (along with any of the dependencies it needs.  Could
> someone suggest the best way of going about this?
> 
> apt-get install <packagename>/testing
> 
> seems like the right thing but that needs testing in my sources file, which
> would cause everything to update wouldn't it?

No, it will just install that package and its dependencies, and their 
dependencies... apt-get dist-upgrade is what takes things from system to 
system although you may want to change the sources.list then do the 
apt-get install but with whatever the flag is for pretend (-p? no debian 
box here to check on) just to see if its going to do anything dangerous.

Adam



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