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 ====== Debian - Backports - Pinning Backports ======
-I’m running Debian Etch because I prefer the stable Debian package tree. This is all great but the software is a little outdated compared to other distributions like Ubuntu. That is where backports come in. Backports are recompiled packages from testing (mostly) and unstable (in a few cases only, e.g. security updates), so they will run without new libraries (wherever it is possible) on a stable Debian distribution. They recommend you to pick out single backports which fits your needs, and not to use all backports available here.
+To force the use of backport for specific packages.
-Using backports is simple
-Add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list
-deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free
-Run
-apt-get update
-You might get a error message
-Reading package lists... Done
-W: GPG error: http://www.backports.org etch-backports Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY EA8E8B2116BA136C
-W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
-This message comes on Debian Etch because you haven’t imported the backports keyring. It’s easily fixed by running the command
-<code bash>
-sudo apt-get install debian-backports-keyring
-</code>
-**NOTE:**  Since all backports are deactivated by default, you need to tell the package manager to use the backports repository.
-To install a newer version of nmap:
-<code bash>
-apt-get -t etch-backports install nmap
-</code>
-<WRAP info>
-**NOTE:**  It is important to remember that if you forget to tell apt-get that nmap is installed from backports and run another apt-get install nmap it will remove the backports package.
-  * A simple solution to this is to use pinning.
-</WRAP>
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