Installing packages from Wheezy in Squeeze

2012-05-01 Thread James Allsopp 

Hello,
Is there an easy way of installing a package (namely virtinst) from 
Wheezy in Squeeze? I've tried variations of

aptitude install -t wheezy virtinst
and
aptitude install virtinst/wheezy

but with no joy, It goes through the start process but says there's 
nothing to update or upgrade

Thanks,
James


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Re: Installing packages from Wheezy in Squeeze

2012-05-01 Thread David Sastre Medina 
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 05:40:24PM +, James Allsopp wrote:
 Hello,
 Is there an easy way of installing a package (namely virtinst) from
 Wheezy in Squeeze? I've tried variations of
 aptitude install -t wheezy virtinst
 and
 aptitude install virtinst/wheezy
 
 but with no joy, It goes through the start process but says there's
 nothing to update or upgrade
 Thanks,
 James

You need to have some repo defined under /etc/apt/sources.list{,d/}
such as your query works.

I usually have the precompiled binaries in one repo and the sources 
in another, to ease backporting:

deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ sid main non-free contrib

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