apt-get question

[Karl Schmidt]

Brian Densmore wrote:

> Any way to tell apt-get to get something from "testing"
> if you are running "stable". I suppose I could download
> it and dpkg it. Although I'm not real comfortable doing
> that just yet. I don't want to upgrade to "testing", but
> I do want this one package that is only in "testing".
> While I'm on the subject what are the downsides of "mixing"
> package levels? Will it break apt-get?
> 
> Thanks,
> Brian
> 

apt-get install package-name/testing

or

wajig install package-name/testing

In your /etc/apt/sources.list file, you may need to put the following so 
apt knows where to get it from:

#Testing
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main non-free contrib
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib 
on-free

#this last line wrapped - you can figure it out.

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