on Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 01:54:56PM -0500, Seth Williamson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I am a total noob and I hope this question is not something so obvious > that it's been hammered to death on this list. > > I am running stable and I want to stay here. Life is good on stable. > Everything Just Works, and that's why I came to Linux in the first > place. > > However, for a few--a very few--apps, I would like to run versions that > are newer. I'm not talking a lot here. Probably Evolution, Galeon, > Abiword, and that's it. Otherwise I'd like to run everything stable. > > Can somebody tell me how to modify my sources.list file to get this > done, and what the command would be to update those particular apps? At > the moment I have the standard sources.list file that comes with a > Libranet 2.7 install. Thanks... It's possible to do this. But... - stable => testing/unsable is a big step. You might want to consider switching to 'testing' for a desktop/workstation. It's relativley stable, but keeps up with more recent software. - The packages you're looking at tracking -- evo and galeon in particular, are *not* trivial, and have extensive and deep dependencies. Trying to bridge stabe => testing/unstable will be difficult if it's possible at all. - Fighting the packaging system in the manner you're describing is generally not recommended. It can be possible, but raises headaches. If you want testing/unstable packages, go to testing/unstable. - Because the delta between testing and unstable is far smaller than that between stable and testing, it's more feasible to pin between testing/unstable. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? If spam is the question, Spamassassin is the answer. http://spamassassin.taint.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]