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How to install a single package from Debian sid?

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Mar 15, 202631588 views

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Take ibus-sunpinyin for example, which isn't existed in the squeeze release. I'm not going to switch the whole system to the sid branch, so, I want to download the single package from sid repository and install it like:

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# Add the sid repository
sudo mv /tmp/sid.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

# Error: can't install because version conflicts of libc6:
#     sudo apt-ge…

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