How to load Edgy version of a package onto Dapper?

David Symons ubuntu at liberatedcomputing.net
Mon Feb 19 23:46:56 UTC 2007


On 2/20/07, Larry Alkoff <labradley at mindspring.com> wrote:
> The Laptop loaded a much better version of Vim (7.1 vs 6.54).
> When I try to update the Vim package on the Desktop it offers
> only the current 6.54 version.
>
> How can I get the Edgy version onto Dapper?

Hi Larry,

There is a dapper backport for vim7 available via:
    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SeveasPackages

Note that I did check the official backports first:
    http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper-backports/allpackages
(but it's not there)

Cheers, Dave.
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David Symons
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