[Gllug] How to install a Debian unstable package on a Debian testing/stable system

[Pete Ryland]

On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 04:39:18PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> OK I found this page:
> 
> http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html
> 
> Sorry to waste people's time.

Pinning is slightly complicated, but once set up it's faily easy to
maintain.  An easier way is to just do an:

# apt-get -t unstable install package-name

for the package you want from unstable.  You will need to have the unstable
apt sources in sources.list, of course, so to make sure that not everything
gets upgraded to unstable, you will need the following line in your
/etc/apt/apt.conf file:

APT::Default-Release "testing";

HTH,
Pete

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