Rick Moen wrote:
Quoting Chris Samuel (chris@csamuel.org):
I did look at Debian Testing at one point, but it's got old KDE packages though. :-(
I _did_ say 'Testing/Unstable'.
What you do is use package-pinning[1] to make unstable-branch packages (and implicitly requested dependencies) available upon request, e.g.,
# apt-get -t unstable install kde-core
Using package-pinning in /etc/apt/preferences (which you'll probably have to create)...
Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 50
Where it works, I prefer Default-Release (cf. pinning): $ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf Apt::Default-Release "wheezy"; IME it works for the specific case of testing/unstable, but I don't know if it's the Right Thing. Both approaches also totally failed last time I tried them on Ubuntu, but that was ca. 2007.