Using apt-get to import from Debian unstable

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 01:50:23PM +0100, Niels L. Ellegaard wrote:

> 
> Is it possible add debian unstable(sid) to my sources.list (Warty)?  I
> guess that I need to correct my /apt/preferences first. Did anybody
> try this with succes?
> 
>                     Thanks in advance
> 
>                            Niels
> 
> DISCLAIMER: I have just Ubuntu on a laptop, and it rocks. You guys are
> doing a great job. But I am do numerical physics for a living, so I
> need a few extra packages that did not make it into "warty universe":
> grace, gfortran, and octave-forge.

grace and octave-forge failed to build for Warty, but they are available in
hoary/universe.  If you are willing to accept the level of stability
provided by Debian unstable, then Hoary should certainly be suitable (it is
in feature freeze at the moment, in contrast with Debian unstable).

I don't see a package called gfortran in either Debian or Ubuntu.

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 - mdz