Quote Originally Posted by HalfWalker
If you're running stable or testing, how do you tell apt how to get packages from unstable ? Running

If I add a deb line to sources.list file to include the unstable tree as well, apt-get install wants to upgrade *lots* of packages.
Got it. Create a /etc/apt/apt.conf with the following in it :

APT:efault-Release "unstable";

Works like a champ. Thanks to google and http://www.wlug.org.nz/FlavoursOfDebian

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