[Gllug] Debian versions

Thom May thom at positive-internet.com
Wed Oct 30 12:13:29 UTC 2002


* Jonathan Dye (jonathan.dye at automationpartnership.com) 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?
> 
see --default-release in 'man apt-get'
-Thom

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