Tip for Debian users
Marc Mims
mmims@bigfoot.com
Mon, 7 Jan 2002 07:05:43 -0800
As a Debian user, I was disappointed to see that GnuCash 1.6.x was not
yet part of the Woody distribution. I didn't want to upgrade to Sid
to get it and with all the warnings and horror stories about
dependencies, I didn't really want to tackle a build from source if I
didn't have to.
I noticed an article in the Debian Weekly News about pinning.
http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2002/1/mail#1
Based on the article, I created /etc/apt/preferences containing,
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 50
and added the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list.
deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
Then I issued the command,
apt-get install gnucash=1.6.4-4
GnuCash installed perfectly. And with the unstable release pinned, I
won't have to worry about 'apt-get upgrade' pulling unstable packages
into my Woody system.
I hope this helps others running Debian that would like to run GnuCash
1.6.x but haven't yet made the leap.
-Marc