Installing debs from Mepis

[Nigel Ridley]

Pete wrote:
> I wouldn't add the repository, you never know what kind of different
> versions or different builds of the same versions of stuff are in there, and
> apt will just blindly install whatever it sees as the "most recent version"
> of stuff, without regard to where it's coming from. Just pull that deb from
> their repository and install it via dpkg.
> 
> -p.

How do I do that? I know it sounds a nooby question but I've never had the occasion to do 
something like that before.

Blessings,

Nigel

> 
> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Nigel Ridley <nigel at rmk.co.il> wrote:
> 
>> There is apparently a deb on Mepis that is not available for Kubuntu (nor
>> Debian). It is
>> Bibletime 1.6.5 (it fixes some annoying bugs in 1.6.4).
>>
>> Someone told me that it is available in the Mepis 7.0 repositories.
>> Can I add Mepis repos to my 'sources.list'? I know that Mepis is not based
>> on Ubuntu
>> anymore, but rather Debian.
>>
>> Will 'sudo apt-get -s install bibletime' confirm if it will install
>> without problems?
>>
>> Blessings,
>>
>> Nigel
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