You can cheat - just add the testing (a.k.a. etch) sources,
apt-get update, run the commands, then comment them again and apt-get
update again.

Although I'm not convinced you'll get all of ruby that way, it's a good start.

(Incidentally, is everyone seeing my posts twice, or is it a gmail
rendering bug?)

On 27/08/05, David Brady <ruby_talk / shinybit.com> wrote:
> Danny Collins wrote:
> 
> >switch your sources to pull from TESTNG and then
> >apt-get update
> >apt-get upgrade
> >apt-get install ruby rails
> >
> >
> Doesn't this mean that EVERY application you have on your system will be
> "upgraded" to *testing* versions?
> 
> I may have used an unstable source, but the last time I did an apt-get
> upgrade with funky sources, it rendered my system unusable (unstable
> version of XFree86, for starters).
> 
> I'm not a debian guru.  Perhaps testing is not the same thing as unstable?
> 
> -dB
> 
> --
> David Brady
> ruby_talk / shinybit.com
> I'm feeling really surreal today... OR AM I?
> 
> 
> 


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