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Ferry Boender

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Alternative debian sources

Wednesday, May 19th, 2004

If you’re familiar with Debian GNU/Linux, you probably already knew about this internet page (apt-get.org). There you can find complete lists for alternative debian package sources.

But did you also know about this one: http://www.backports.org/?

“Backports are recompiled packages from testing (mostly) and unstable (in a few cases only, e.g. security updates), so they will run without new libraries (wherever it is possible) on a stable Debian distribution. I recommend you to pick out single backports which fits your needs, and not to use all backports available here.”

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