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The experimental repository
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Introduction
Quoting the Debian FAQ: "project/experimental/: This directory contains packages and tools which are still being developed, and are still in the alpha testing stage. Users shouldn't be using packages from here, because they can be dangerous and harmful even for the most experienced people."
You have been warned
Unlike the Debian Releases unstable and testing, experimental isn't a complete distribution. Even if there are a lot less consistency requirements for packages in experimental, they are autobuilt on the best effort basis by official Debian Package Auto-Building intrastructure.
To configure APT
An /etc/apt/sources.list entry for experimental is:
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian experimental main
To install an experimental package
To install an experimental package, do:
apt-get update apt-get -t experimental install packagename
To upgrade an experimental package
if the package has changed in experimental and you want to upgrade it, do:
apt-get update apt-get -t experimental install packagename
APT pinning
Optionally, if you want to track a given package from experimental, add the following to /etc/apt/preferences (and see AptPreferences):
Package: dash Pin: release a=experimental Pin-Priority: 800