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Re: How to get an older emacs on Jessie

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> Can this be adjusted to allow me to install via apt-get this package?:
> https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/emacs23
> My fear is that if I monkey with sources.list I will trigger an unwanted
> dist-upgrade.

dist-upgrade doesn't happen automatically.  So yes, you can add the
above and then do something like

    aptitude update; aptitude install emacs23

If you don't trust APT enough, then you can go the safer/manual route:

    wget ..../emacs23_...deb
    dpkg --install emacs23_...deb

[ Of course, this may fail, for lack of a dependency, which you'll then
  want to wget+dpkg install in the same way, etc...  ]


        Stefan

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How to get an older emacs on Jessie Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> - 2016-09-29 18:20 +0200
  Re: How to get an older emacs on Jessie Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2016-09-30 09:20 +0200
  Re: How to get an older emacs on Jessie Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2016-09-30 15:30 +0200
    Re: How to get an older emacs on Jessie Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> - 2016-09-30 17:20 +0200

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