A question about Debian Backports and LMDE 2

[crystalshadow]

Does it work to add and use the debian backports repo in LMDE 2?

[Monsta]

Should work - if you mean jessie-backports (as LMDE 2 is based on Debian Jessie).

[xenopeek]

Yes this works fine. Be mindful to use it for applications only and not system libraries (as that could break other things). To enable backports create the file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jessie-backports.list and put the following in it:

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deb http://http.debian.net/debian jessie-backports main

Then refresh your package index cache with (by clicking Refresh in Update Manager or running the command "apt update").

Note that the APT priority of backports is by default set such that you won't install packages from backports unless you explicitly do so. So adding backports to your system is perfectly safe as only the packages you explicitly install from it will get upgrades from it.

To explicitly install a package from backports you can use Synaptic Package Manager. Highlight the package you want to install from backports in the list then in the menu select Package>Force Version and select the version from jessie-backports. Alternatively you can use the following command (replace "package" with the name of the package to install):

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apt install -t jessie-backports package

[crystalshadow]

Yes this works fine. Be mindful to use it for applications only and not system libraries (as that could break other things). To enable backports create the file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jessie-backports.list and put the following in it:

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deb http://http.debian.net/debian jessie-backports main

Then refresh your package index cache with (by clicking Refresh in Update Manager or running the command "apt update").

Note that the APT priority of backports is by default set such that you won't install packages from backports unless you explicitly do so. So adding backports to your system is perfectly safe as only the packages you explicitly install from it will get upgrades from it.

To explicitly install a package from backports you can use Synaptic Package Manager. Highlight the package you want to install from backports in the list then in the menu select Package>Force Version and select the version from jessie-backports. Alternatively you can use the following command (replace "package" with the name of the package to install):

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apt install -t jessie-backports package

This worked fine, i just opened the

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/etc/apt/sources.list.d/jessie-backports.list

and paste

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deb http://http.debian.net/debian jessie-backports main

and it works.

Does an install from backports upgrade with the Mint update? or is it command upgrade with the backports package?

[xenopeek]

If you have installed a package explicitly from jessie-backports, it will henceforth receive upgrades from there through Update Manager.