Re: apt-get source question

On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 05:10:38PM +0000, Pollywog wrote:
I looked in the APT tutorial and also in a book but I could not find an answer
to this problem.

I want to get a source package from the "testing" release, not from "stable",
so I did this:

apt-get -t testing source <packagename>

It does not seem to work. Is there a way to do this without temporarily
modifying the sources.list in order to get the desired sources?

without putting the testing repositories in your sources.list and
apt-get updating, you cannot get the package through apt. You could,
however, use wget or something similar to get the package, if its a
one time deal. wget <repositoryaddress>/path/to/package/<Package
file.deb> and then dpkg -i it.

That said, there is no harm in adding repositories to your
sources.list. It will slow down your apt-get update. Otherwise, provided your
apt is set up correctly, it should cause no problems. You'll probably
want to set

APT::Default Release "<your preferred release here>"

in your apt_preferences.

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