How to load Edgy version of a package onto Dapper?

Ouattara Oumar Aziz wattazoum at gmail.com
Tue Feb 20 00:18:35 UTC 2007


Larry Alkoff a écrit :
> David Symons wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> 
> I'd be very happy to just get the Edgy version of vim onto Dapper.
> 
> If I knew how to find the repository that had vim for Edgy, I'd just
> add that temporarily to my sources.list.
> 
> How can I easily find where the vim package is in the list of Edgy 
> repositories?
> 
> Larry
> 
NEVER DO THAT ! For the sake of your computer. you're going to break 
your system.
To have latest packages, use the backport repository of your 
distribution (Dapper) . If it doesn't exist, ask for it and if you're 
lucky they will backport it for you.

wattazoum





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