On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 17:58:31 -0400, Doug Jolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi -- > > I've been playing around with Linux for some time; but, I'm > very new to Debian. > > I have installed the stable version of Debian. However, I > really need a more current version of Exim. I'd like to > install the exim4-daemon-heavy package which is in the > testing tree. I added: > > deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main > > to /etc/apt/sources.list and then ran apt-get as follows: >
If you do this, all your system will become SID, aka Debian unstable. If you only want to use an unstable/testing package you have two path, look if someone has done what is called a "backport" (you can look at www.apt-get.org) or you can compile from the Debian source. With the APT tools it's simpler that what can sound. > > apt-get install exim4-daemon-heavy > > I got an error which I'll append to this message. > The error message is because you don't have refreshed the package lists. You should have used "apt-get update" before the install, but beware, in this way you'll move practically all your packages to SID... =) [...] If you are new to Debian, i suggest you to lurk/look in this list and this list archive, or you can look for the official documentation. There's a lot of web pages targeted at Debian newcomers... Andrea -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
