How to install experimental package?

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Jorrick Sleijster picture Jorrick Sleijster · Jun 21, 2013 · Viewed 13.9k times · Source

I would like to install an experimental Debian package.

I'm currently having problems with the older version so I figured it's best to upgrade and try that one because I can always switch back. Anyway I want to install this package:

Experimental: http://packages.debian.org/experimental/deluge
Normal: http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/deluge

I have wheezy debian.

Answer

Grzegorz Żur picture Grzegorz Żur · Jun 22, 2013

Add 

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian experimental main contrib non-free

to your /etc/apt/sources.list or into /etc/apt/sources.list.d/experimental.list then execute

apt-get update
apt-get -t experimental install deluge

See Debian Wiki and apt-get manual

  -t, --target-release, --default-release
       This option controls the default input to the policy engine; it creates a default pin at priority 990 using the specified release
       string. This overrides the general settings in /etc/apt/preferences. Specifically pinned packages are not affected by the value of
       this option. In short, this option lets you have simple control over which distribution packages will be retrieved from. Some
       common examples might be -t '2.1*', -t unstable or -t sid. Configuration Item: APT::Default-Release; see also the
       apt_preferences(5) manual page.

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