how to install testing/unstable packages

2004-01-14 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Dear All, i'm new to debian. Recently I strongly made up my mind to leave Redhat/Fedora and be a user of Debian. I'm pretty happy with it's structure and utilities. I'm also glad to see the release structure (stable, testing, unstable) which suits to the taste of every user. the stable release

Re: how to install testing/unstable packages

2004-01-14 Thread Ryan Mackay
Sometime near Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:12:35PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: the stable release seems rock solid. but packages like kde are very outdated. how do i upgrade the kde packages (testing release). what lines do i need to add into my /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list

Re: how to install testing/unstable packages

2004-01-14 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Take care: the suggested approach is rather a brut force one: for a soft way to do that see http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-woody.en.html hth, Jerome Ryan Mackay wrote: Sometime near Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:12:35PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: the stable release seems rock

Re: how to install testing/unstable packages

2004-01-14 Thread Rick Weinbender
Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: Dear All, i'm new to debian. Recently I strongly made up my mind to leave Redhat/Fedora and be a user of Debian. I'm pretty happy with it's structure and utilities. I'm also glad to see the release structure (stable, testing, unstable) which suits to the taste of

Re: how to install testing/unstable packages

2004-01-14 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
well, after adding the section that you've mentioned below and hitting: apt-get upgrade what state will my os come to ? will it be upgraded in stable or testing or unstable state ? plz guide.. ritesh At 11:32 PM 1/14/2004, you wrote: Sometime near Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:12:35PM +0530, Ritesh

Re: how to install testing/unstable packages

2004-01-14 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 14 January 2004 08:42 am, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: Dear All, i'm new to debian. Recently I strongly made up my mind to leave Redhat/Fedora and be a user of Debian. I'm pretty happy with it's structure and utilities. I'm also glad to