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Re: Installing backports packages

From	Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Installing backports packages
Date	2018-10-30 15:30 +0100
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On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 04:04:29PM +0200, Tommi Höynälänmaa wrote:
>I have got Debian stable and I'm trying to install new versions of 
>debhelper and lintian from backports. However, apt-get claims that the 
>packages are already the newest versions and installs nothing. Command 
>"apt-get show" shows the new versions (from backports) of the 
>packages, too. How can I install the new packages from backports?

apt-get install packagename/stretch-backports
or
apt-get install -t stretch-backports packagename

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Re: Installing backports packages Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-10-30 15:30 +0100

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