Thread: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing
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mscion is offline mscion
2010-09-21 , 13:09
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#1798
Originally Posted by rebhana View Post
You have to edit /etc/apt/soures.list and uncomment the line with "sid" in it. Then
Code:
apt-get update
apt-get install calibre
apt-get clean
Thereafter you should not forget of putting the "#" back.

Btw, the central picture with flipping book covers is also there in version 0.7.7, when you click the appropriate button in the lower right. The general outlay has however changed.

And, yes, version numbers are not like decimal numbers.
Ok. I had actually uncommented sid. The problem was that I had not commented out squeeze. Apparently, when given the choice between programs in the repositories squeeze and sid, apt-get picks, by default, those in squeeze, independent of the version number. I would think the rankings would be set in /etc/apt/preferences but this was not the case in my preference file. Must be done some other way or is implicit.

Obvioulsy the safest set up would be to set the Pin-Priority

First: stable (lenny), Second: testing (squeeze), Third:unstable (sid).