On 2010-04-10 Modestas Vainius wrote: > No unless you want to list all KDE SC 4.4 binary packages in > /etc/apt/preferences (one entry for each package, 400+ in total). No not really. > Never pin whole experimental higher than unstable. Didn't think it was a good idea, but wanted to try it out anyway. Now I know I shouldn't do that ;-) > Therefore you should tweak aptitude in such a way that the first solution > would be the one you want. I've noticed that you know quite a number of advanced aptitude tricks, like the ones you give below and were available on http://qt-kde.debian.net/. Where did you learn those tricks? > In order to upgrade existing KDE 4.3.4 installation, something like this > should work (untested): I think it should be doable by installing KDE 4.3 and upgrading it in the interactive stage, thanks. > For new installations: > # aptitude -t experimental install kde-standard live-helper doesn't support constructs like "-t experimental" (in non-interactive mode anyway). But with apt-preferences, pinning and the like most if not all of it should be possible. Quite a learning curve, but should be interesting.
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