[Linux-disciples] Pulling mutt from Debian unstable, but nothing else

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

And sources.list?

Stephen R Laniel wrote, on 5/11/2009 11:06 AM:
> On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 08:09:34PM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
>> Or, why not just specify mutt in
>> preferences and not other packages?
>
> Good plan. So:
>
> | (11:05) slaniel at slaniel-laptop:~$ cat /etc/apt/preferences
> | Package: *
> | Pin: release a=jaunty
> | Pin-Priority: 700
> |
> | Package: mutt
> | Pin: release a=sid
> | Pin-Priority: 1000
>
> And then:
>
> | (11:04) slaniel at slaniel-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install -t sid mutt
> | Reading package lists... Done
> | Building dependency tree
> | Reading state information... Done
> | Package mutt is not available, but is referred to by another package.
> | This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
> | is only available from another source
>
> I assume there's some easy fix to get
> past this?
>
> And incidentally, as mentioned on
> http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html
> , I got the "Dynamic MMap" error, which
> I fixed by upping the APT::Cache-Limit.
>