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Apt-Pinning

John H. Robinson, IV: I will show you a way that you can have apt mix-and-match between Stable, Testing, and Unstable sources. This will allow you to run a mostly-Stable system, but also track the latest and greatest of those packages that you are most keenly interested in.

It is much easier to install XML::Atom on a Debian system if you have first issued the following command:

apt-get -t testing install libxml-libxml-perl libdatetime-perl libdigest-sha1-perl libwww-perl libxml-libxslt-perl

Thanks for the ref Sam, this is something that's been bugging me for a while (I've got 'unstable' in my sources list, but only really for Gnome).

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Apt-Pinning. John H. Robinson, IV: I will show you a way that you can have apt mix-and-match between Stable, Testing, and Unstable sources. This will allow you to run a mostly-Stable system, but also track the latest and greatest of those packages...

Excerpt from Rahul Dave: TIG's Software Picks at

Apt-Pinning. John H. Robinson, IV: I will show you a way that you can have apt mix-and-match between Stable, Testing, and Unstable sources. This will allow you to run a mostly-Stable system, but also track the latest and greatest of those packages...

Excerpt from TIG's Corner at

Sam Ruby: Apt-Pinning

how to get XML::Atom on debian - warning, breaks MT (need to update Berkeley DBs afterwards)...

Excerpt from del.icio.us/tag/debian at

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