Bill Jonas on Thu, 25 Oct 2001 12:00:23 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] Debian package list file?


On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 12:03:19PM -0400, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> 	That was it.  Now how do I add unstable (or whatever it's 
> called) packages to my list?

vi /etc/apt/sources.list
:%s/stable/un&/g
:wq


:)

Oh, btw, if you have security.debian.org in your sources.list, you'll
want to comment it out.  It's only for stable.  Unstable gets its
security updates as they happen.

Also, there are now three Debian distributions to choose from, stable,
testing, and unstable, or potato, woody, and sid, respectively.

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