On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 12:18:41PM -0700, Matt Brubeck wrote: > On Sat, 19 May 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > > # apt-get upgrade modutils/unstable > > > > but that ends up doing nothing. > > I believe this should be "apt-get install modutils/unstable" > but I am away from my Debian box at the moment and can't be sure.
Yup, that's it. You have to list an unstable package repository in your sources.list before that will do anything, though. When you do that, you'll want to put APT::Default-Release "testing"; in apt.conf, unless you want to upgrade everything to unstable. If a package has deps that can only be satisfied by upgrading some other packages to unstable, you can use apt-get -t unstable install foobar The main reason I run testing instead of unstable is so that I don't have to spend my time dealing with broken pre/post inst scripts, so I don't mind running a few packages from unstable, even if they are important ones, like libc :) Ben's probably pretty careful not to break everybody's system with a bad libc upgrade, but I could probably hack my way out of any problems if they were to occur :) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
