How to load Edgy version of a package onto Dapper?

[Larry Alkoff]

Ouattara Oumar Aziz wrote:
> Larry Alkoff a écrit :
>> David Symons wrote:
>>> On 2/20/07, Larry Alkoff <labradley at mindspring.com> wrote:
>>>> 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?
>>> Hi Larry,
>>>
>>> There is a dapper backport for vim7 available via:
>>>     https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SeveasPackages
>>>
>>> Note that I did check the official backports first:
>>>     http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper-backports/allpackages
>>> (but it's not there)
>>>
>>> Cheers, Dave.
>>
>> I'd be very happy to just get the Edgy version of vim onto Dapper.
>>
>> If I knew how to find the repository that had vim for Edgy, I'd just
>> add that temporarily to my sources.list.
>>
>> How can I easily find where the vim package is in the list of Edgy 
>> repositories?
>>
>> Larry
>>
> NEVER DO THAT ! For the sake of your computer. you're going to break 
> your system.
> To have latest packages, use the backport repository of your 
> distribution (Dapper) . If it doesn't exist, ask for it and if you're 
> lucky they will backport it for you.
> 
> wattazoum
> 
> 

OK I'll take your and Noop's advice and not mess with Edgy repositories 
for Dapper.

Backports were commented out in my sources.list.

I tried commenting _in_ the backports repository in sources.list and 
using 'dselect select'

Searching for vim only gave me the old version which I already have.
Is there another repository I can try to find the latest vim?

Larry


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