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debian testing repos
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 9:14 am
by MMonty1960
I am sorry, I just installed LMDE. I love the rolling edition concept and I hope to solve the following question to adopt definitively LMDE. For my work I need of some packages, like opencv and libserial. But the manager refuse the full opencv installation and libserial is not listed. On the other hand these packages are in debian squeeze repo. What is the best way to install packages from debian squeeze or testing? Should I add the debian repo or is there a method to directly install a particular package? Thank you for any answer.
Re: debian testing repos
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 9:39 am
by Gerd50
The only way i know is adding the debian repos temporarely, refresh synaptic, install the wanted packages, disable or
delete the Debian repos and refresh synaptic again.
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=197&t=79533
Re: debian testing repos
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 9:50 am
by MMonty1960
OK. Could you give me detailed information on how add the testing repo? In particular where can I find the GPG key? Sorry but I am not much skilled on that.
Re: debian testing repos
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 12:02 pm
by Gerd50
You open yor sources.list with
then copy and paste the line
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deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
to disable it add a # in front of the line.
You can do the same with stable or unstable repos
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deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
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deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
Don't forget to disable the repos after you've installed the wanted packages and refresh synaptic.
The debian-keyring should already be installed. If not you find it in synaptic.