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Re: [TCLUG:20018] apt-get across distributions
On Wednesday, August 02, 2000, Jim Crumley <crumley@belka.space.umn.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 11:46:56AM -0500, Philip C Mendelsohn wrote:
> Yeah, you have to hack it in and out by hand.
>
> > Edit your sources.list to include unstable, then
>
> I'm not usually one to pick nits, but then you should:
> "apt-get update"
> to get the package listing from unstable.
>
> then:
> > apt-get install 'package1, package2, ... '
> >
> > It will go find the most current package automagically.
>
> Then, if you don't want to get other packages, change your
> sources.list back to frozen and re-run apt-get update.
>
> Its a little hackish, but it works nice ;)
Sounds good. Thanks guys!
John
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