On Wed, 2001-09-19 at 02:02, joe golden wrote: > I have downloaded the unstable version of abiword into my home directory. I > would like to install this on my testing system. I believe all dependencies > for the unstable version (0.9.0-0.1) are met. > > How do I do the install? Do i need to put unstable in the sources.list? > This is the only package I need from unstable. > > As root I copied the .deb into /var/cache/apt/archives and then tried > apt-get install abiword=0.9.0-0.1. > This gave me "E: Version '0.9.0-0.1' for 'abiword' was not found." > > Many thanks in advance.
If all dependencies have REALLY been met it would be far simpler to simply dpkg -i (complete name of abiword .deb). Personally I prefer to rebuild against my system: apt-get source abiword You have to put a line in your /etc/apt/sources.list pointing to unstable as a "deb-src"
