Re: How to load Edgy version of a package onto Dapper?

[W.D.McKinney]

----- Original Message -----
From: Larry Alkoff
[mailto:labradley at mindspring.com]
To: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions
[mailto:ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com]
Sent: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:57:16
-0900
Subject: How to load Edgy version of a package onto Dapper?


> I run Dapper 6.06 on my Desktop machine and recently loaded Edgy 6.10 on 
> a Laptop.
> 
> The Laptop loaded a much better version of Vim (7.1 vs 6.54).
> When I try to update the Vim package on the Desktop it offers
> only the current 6.54 version.
> 
> How can I get the Edgy version onto Dapper?
> 
> Larry


Never tried but if you downloaded it and used #dpkg -i new-version.deb
it may work.

-Dee