Thanks for the info: for use of people as newbie as I am, and to avoid them the searchings I did, here is how I have found to do (I have testing version on my Power Book Wall Street): - add in /etc/apt/source.list the lines corresponding to unstable and sid - I added in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf the line: "APT::Default-Release "testing"; " but it did nothing good more, so I cancelled it. - I created a file /etc/apt/prefetences, here is it: Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 900 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 500 Package: * Pin: release o=Debian,a=sid Pin-Priority: 200 But when I was doing apt-get update, I was getting an error message: "E: Invalid record in the preferences file, no Package header" (I also tried without "o+Debian", same result) so I cancelled this file as well. So, I just added the lines for unstable and sid in source.list. Then, I did apt-get install -t sid evolution, and it worked. I got evolution 1.2, as I wanted, I had for this to download 25 Mo sources, including upgrading for mozilla 1.3 (testing was at 1.0). It looks to work since yesterday. Then I cancelled the lines for sid in source.list. Handmade, but it worked.
Le jeu 13/03/2003 à 04:25, Chris Tillman a écrit : > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 03:19:19AM +0100, you wrote: > > > Thanks a lot. > > > > > > Now, a question that will look stupid to many, but useful to 5,9 billion > > > people that didn't deeply read all the docs ;-) : > > > > > > I have sarge. Can I use sid version of this program, without using sid > > > for all the distribution? If yes, how do I install it? > > > > You can use > > > > APT::Default-Release "testing"; > > > > in your /etc/apt/apt.conf to keep your system mostly > > at testing (or stable, if that's where you're at) and > > then use apt-get -t to ask for a given distribution > > when installing a given package. > > > > But, I suspect a large package like evolution will drag in > > some serious dependencies like the sid-version libc6 and > > a host of others; you might want to use -s first to see > > what's going to happen. > > > > man apt-get > > man apt.conf
