[Gllug] Getting Debian to take packages selectively out of Sid

[Pete Ryland]

On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 12:22:25PM +0000, John Winters wrote:
> I want to be able to pick packages selectively out of unstable or testing
> but not have apt upgrade my whole system to unstable/testing.

Hi John,

See the apt howto for an easy way to do this:

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html#s-default-version

Basically, have all sources in your /etc/apt/sources.list, then put

APT::Default-Release "stable";

in your /etc/apt/apt.conf and then do:

# apt-get update
# apt-get -t unstable install openoffice.org openoffice.org-spellcheck openoffice.org-help

You'll find it may have to install a few other things from unstable to meet
dependencies, so I hope you have enough bandy! :)

HTH,
Pete
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