On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 12:38:28PM -0800, Alan Su wrote: > i've got an installation of testing on my laptop, but i wanted to > upgrade a few packages (notably galeon) to the unstable version. i'd > rather not just point apt to the unstable distribution, as i'm pretty > happy with the way testing is working out for me. > > in order to do this, i'm manually using dpkg to install packages that > i download from the unstable distribution. however, for this to work, > i need to upgrade a bunch of other packages on which these few > packages depend. is there a way to determine the set of packages > which must be installed (from the unstable distribution) before i go > about installing the packages i want? thanks for any ideas you might > have!
Put both testing and unstable in sources.list, then tell apt-get to use testing by default by putting this in /etc/apt/apt.conf: Apt::Default-Release "testing"; Then, when you want to intall something from unstable (e.g., galeon), say (after apt-get update'ing of course): apt-get -t unstable install galeon That's it. You may want to see what will be installed from unstable first using the -s flag. -- Note that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux mus 2.4.17mvz4 #1 Fri Mar 15 23:30:15 CET 2002 i686 unknown Matijs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]