[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I shouldn't have to ask this question, but I do. It's probably all in > the documentation somewhere, but I'm a Debian newbie and I still can't > find my way around properly. > > I have just installed the stable debian release woody from CD-ROMs, my > first experience with debian, and I have found it a success. I > especially liked app-get and its friends. > > Now there's a package (twiki) in the testing distribution I'd like to > install. It doesn't appear on the CDROMs, presumably because they are > just the stable release. > > How do I go about it, so that it will be properly downloaded to the > proper place, installed properly, and I retain a copy of the package in > case I need to do it again? Do I need to set up my own patial mirror on > my hard disk somewhere?
There are to ways to accomplish this: 1. via /etc/apt/preferences: `man apt_preferences` http://www.argon.org/~roderick/apt-pinning.html 2. via the Apt option APT::Default-Release: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html#s-default-version Good luck, Julian.
