Adding non-ubuntu packages
Derek Broughton
auspex at pointerstop.ca
Fri Apr 29 20:47:33 UTC 2005
On Friday 29 April 2005 17:30, John wrote:
> On Friday 29 April 2005 20:57, Derek Broughton wrote:
> > Is there a way to either add the debian repository to
> > /etc/apt/sources.list and have it not generally checked, or to use an
> > alternate source list when I want to get something from another
> > repository?
>
> Easiest way is to use Kynaptic to install Synaptic, which can add and
> remove repositories in its GUI.
Good god, no! Synaptic is barely more functional than Kynaptic. I use
Kpackage, whose only fault is that it doesn't understand the new kdesu.
I found a decent guide to apt pinning, which is what I thought I wanted to use
in the first place, where I was just told it was a bad idae.
--
derek
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