Adding non-ubuntu packages

[Derek Broughton]

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