On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, John R. Sheets wrote: > On Wednesday, August 02, 2000, Philip C Mendelsohn <mend0070 at tc.umn.edu> wrote: > > Edit sources.list. I just did that to install glibc6 on my slink+ > > box. I should get off my duff and do a dist-upgrade, but work has my > > blinders on to doing much that doesn't have to do with the project I'm > > working on. > > Is there an official mechanism for that, or do you have to hack it in, > do the install, then hack it back out? If it's an official option, how > do I tell it to only install/update certain packages from unstable? Edit your sources.list to include unstable, then apt-get install 'package1, package2, ... ' It will go find the most current package automagically. Alternatively, you can download a .deb and run dpkg -i $dir/$package.deb where $dir is where you put it and $package is whatever the package is called. Cheers, Phil M -- Lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org