On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Sick Twist wrote:
>> From: Eben King <eben1@tampabay.rr.com>
>> Reply-To: slug@nks.net
>> To: SLUG <slug@nks.net>
>> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu questions
>> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 13:28:39 -0500 (EST)
>>
>> On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Logan Tygart wrote:
>>
>>> http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2005/12/concise-apt-get-dpkg-primer-for-new.html
>>
>> Great, thanks. Through that I found (the seemingly excellent)
>> http://apt-get.org/; the only thing I need to know to make it really useful
>> is what do I do to make a woody/sarge/whatever repository accepted?
>
> It's generally not a good idea to mix versions. What you are talking about is
> not only mixing versions, but mixing distributions (Debian & Ubuntu). If you
> insist on doing so, read up on apt pinning. The file to modify for this is
> /etc/apt/preferences.
OK, failing that, do you know where to get a more recent Firefox and/or
Thunderbird? 1.07 is getting pretty long in the tooth.
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