How to load Edgy version of a package onto Dapper?

[Derek Broughton]

Ouattara Oumar Aziz wrote:

> Larry Alkoff a écrit :

>> 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?
>> 
> NEVER DO THAT ! For the sake of your computer. you're going to break
> your system.

Oh, don't be such a wet blanket.  It's not that serious.

> 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.

Why would you do that if you could actually get what you want from an
existing repo?  

Yes, use dapper-backports first.  Add this to your sources.list:
 deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-backports \
  main restricted universe multiverse

Then, of course, "sudo aptitude update".

If that doesn't work, try using edgy, but when you try the install, if it
wants to add much more than the package you requested, assume it's going to
be hazardous and don't bother.  There are all sorts of packages, though,
that will successfully install without any other dependencies, and are
perfectly safe to install from a newer release.
-- 
derek