Question

9

Install a single specific package from future distribution

rated 0 times [ 9] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 27398 / 2 Years ago, wed, may 4, 2022, 4:58:16

I'm currently using precise. I need to upgrade a certain package (namely bind9 and it's dependencies) to a newer version, which is currently found in raring (alfa at the time of writing this). How to do it ?

What will happen if I just add to my sources.list:

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu raring main

Will the next apt-get update / apt-get upgrade, upgrade most of my system to raring then ?

Answers

Only authorized users can answer the question. Please sign in first, or register a free account.

pilun

Add To Favorites

Follow

Total Points: 270

Total Questions: 100

Total Answers: 94

Location: England

Member since Sat, Feb 13, 2021

3 Years ago

pilun questions

1 How do I mute videos by default in MPV

Thu, Sep 16, 21, 18:43, 3 Years ago

1 Ubuntu 22.04: docker: containers not accessible from outside

Mon, Aug 23, 21, 04:32, 3 Years ago

1 How can I update Wine, without uninstalling it?

Wed, Sep 14, 22, 11:04, 2 Years ago

1 The difference between "echo" and "export" an environment variable?

Fri, Oct 15, 21, 21:18, 3 Years ago

1 Intellij Idea not showing up in apps and cannot add it to Favorites

Tue, Dec 13, 22, 11:39, 1 Year ago

View All

answered 2 Years ago saucdisr · Accepted Answer

If you want to mix repositories like that you should use pinning.

See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PinningHowto for details.

When pinning, you install a single package and as few dependencies as possible.

Without pinning, sudo apt-get upgrade will update (upgrade) many or all your packages and very likely will cause breakage.

In general, unless you have a lot of experience with apt, mixing repositories, even with pinning is inadvisable.

Better to find a ppa or use backports.

My advice is that you use Craven's ppa.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports

IMO, if a package is not available, I agree with the advice to build from source as, IMO, it is less likely to cause irreparable harm to the system.