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Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 59000 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.

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Install specific packages from debian testing (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Zenlix@lemm.ee to c/debian@lemmy.ml

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I have a few (~5) applications where the version in the debian stable repos is to old for me. Examples would be podman and restic. I found out that the version for testing are recent enough. Is it possible to install specific apps from testing while the default is stable?

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[–] bizdelnick@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Yes, this is possible if you configure preferences (see man apt_preferences). However if you install numerous packages from testing, this can lead to various bugs. I used to do such installation and concluded that it is better to avoid this.

[–] Zenlix@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What kind of bugs where that?

[–] bizdelnick@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That was many years ago, so I don't remember all of them. E.g. Chromium was unable to display pages (was it installed from testing? or it was from stable but some of its dependencies from testing? I forgot).

[–] Zenlix@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

For some apps that are not system relevant such as restic I have found a solution in form of distrobox. But that does not work for programs like podman.

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