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kirothi

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Registered: 2009-10-04

Posts: 14

Installing packages from Testing

Hi guys,

couldnt find a wiki or another post about this so here it goes.

I want to just install the new kernel from the testing repo (read no full system upgrade)

But ive enabled the testing repo in my pacman.conf file, and did a pacman -Sy to sync. But i still get the "System is up to date" messages.

Am i missing a step here?

Thanks (from a new user)

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: Installing packages from Testing

You have to enable it in your pacman.conf above the [core] and [extra] repos.  Also, as a warning, it is not designed to only update single packages from [testing] unless you really know what you are doing.

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kirothi

Member

Registered: 2009-10-04

Posts: 14

Re: Installing packages from Testing

I see, Thank you.