Unstable Packages

[Marcelo Macchi]

Hi there, I'm Marcelo from Argentina and I have download the last version of wine for my debian linux, but I have the problem that the wine libraries and all the packages of new versions use other packages that are unstable.
I want to know if there is a way to setup my apt program to download all the unstable packages from the Debian.org web without to download one by one.

Thanks for your Help

Marcelo

[Florian Ernst]

Hello Marcelo!

At Friday 25 July 2003 01:20 Marcelo Macchi wrote:

> Hi there, I'm Marcelo from Argentina and I have download the last
> version of wine for my debian linux, but I have the problem that the
> wine libraries and all the packages of new versions use other
> packages that are unstable. I want to know if there is a way to
> setup my apt program to download all the unstable packages from the
> Debian.org web without to download one by one.

You can set up your apt system and add a line for unstable to your
sources.list, see the Debian Reference[1] for further information,
and do a
apt-get install -t unstable wine
to get the newest debian version of it. Read the reference carefully
or you will end up with a complete sid system.

Be aware that mixing different distributions of debian might lead to
problems, although I can't see any when referring to wine.

HTH,
Flo

[1] [url]http://www.br.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#quick-reference[/url]


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[Charles-Roberts]

Marcelo Macchi wrote:

> Hi there, I'm Marcelo from Argentina and I have download the last
> version of wine for my debian linux, but I have the problem that the
> wine libraries and all the packages of new versions use other packages
> that are unstable.
> I want to know if there is a way to setup my apt program to download all
> the unstable packages from the Debian.org web without to download one by
> one.
>
> Thanks for your Help
>
> Marcelo

Hi Marcelo:

Make your /etc/apt/preferences file like the enclosed preferences file.
I do not know which release of debian you are using. I am using
'testing', so you may have to alter the preferences file. Add an entry
to your /etc/apt/sources.list file to point to the 'unstable' version.

Use dselect (or apt-get) to 'update' your system.
Use 'apt-get install -t unstable wine' to install wine.
Any other pckages that wine needs will also be installed from 'unstable'.

You can use 'apt-get -s install -t unstable wine' to simulate the
install. This way you can see what 'apt-get' would have installed. Be
sure to read 'man apt-get'.

HTH
Charles


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