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How to install testing packages on stable Debian?
Installing packages from ‘testing’ on a ‘stable’ machine¶. See: www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch… install the occasionally package from ‘testing’. This can be done by adding both distributions to /etc/apt/source.list and then configuring apt to get only ‘stable’ by default.
Can a package go from unstable to testing?
“Testing is fairly stable??”, you ask. Yes. In order for a package to migrate from unstable to testing, it has to have zero open bugs for 10 consecutive days. Chances are that, especially for the more popular packages, somebody is going to submit a bug report for an unstable version if something is wrong.
How can I download source packages from testing?
To configure APT to download source packages from testing, just add: If you just want to follow the current testing and not future testings, replace “testing” with the current codename (as of this writing it is “buster”) Thanks for contributing an answer to Server Fault!
Is it safe to mix stable with testing?
Many people seem to be afraid of mixing stable with testing, but frankly, testing is fairly stable in its own right, and with proper preferences and solution checking, you can avoid the “stability drift” that puts your core packages on the unstable path. “Testing is fairly stable??”, you ask. Yes.
How to install a single package from Debian Sid?
Now, to know which versions are available for a package that you want to install use the command: apt-cache policy packagename, so using drush as package I get this output:
Which is the backport repository for Debian Sid?
For this example I’ll use the package drush because there are a lot of differences in the versions between the different release of Debian. This list defines all the standard repository: stable (squeeze), testing (wheezy) and Sid aka Unstable, we are also defining the backport repository and the security repository.