help immensely. Thank you Mark. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Mark Phillips wrote: > Michael, > > If all you have is the stable branch in your sources.list, then you won't > have access to any of the testing packages, even if you specify testing on > the command line with apt-get. apt-get has to know where to find the > package you want to download, which is why sources.list exists. If you want > to be able to install both testing and stable packages, then you have to > have both stable and testing branches listed in your sources.list. > > If you want to hold a package to a specific version or branch (stable, > testing, experimental), then you can "pin" that package to that version, > and all future updates will only use that version. Take a look at > http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html. However, you still have to > have the correct repositories listed in sources.list, and you have to run > an apt-get upgrade to update the local cache so the OS knows where to find > the packages you want. > > Hope that helps! > > Mark > > On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 1:02 AM, Michael Havens wrote: > >> A specific version of a package can be selected for installation by >> following the package name with an equals (=) and the version of the >> package to select. This will cause that version to be located and selected >> for install. Alternatively, a specific distribution can be selected by >> following the package name with a slash (/) and the version of the >> distribution or the Archive name (i.e. stable, testing, unstable). >> >> source: http://linux.die.net/man/8/apt-get >> >> >> So this is saying to me you don't need the PPA to install the latest >> version but can instead do: >> = >> >> If that is so we don't need to add PPAs to our systems. IN other words >> PPAs are just a way to make it so that we are always running the latest >> version of the package regardless of if it works whereas we choose what we >> want to run with: >> = >> That is very Linuxy of them! >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >