On Monday 31 July 2006 14:10, Pollywog wrote: > I looked in the APT tutorial and also in a book but I could not find an > answer to this problem. > > I want to get a source package from the "testing" release, not from > "stable", so I did this: > > apt-get -t testing source <packagename> > > It does not seem to work. Is there a way to do this without temporarily > modifying the sources.list in order to get the desired sources?
Try apt-get source packagename=1.2.3-4 use whatever the version number is for testing. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc
pgpAq2GQJDpbt.pgp
Description: PGP signature