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Okay, I rarely post topics here, but I think this one fits into a newbie section. :-/
Here's the deal. I'm running a stable version of Debian 6, and I would like to install a package from the unstable (sid) repo. Now most tutorials on google suggest that I should edit my /etc/apt/preferences and /etc/apt/apt.conf files to add a few lines. I have checked the /etc/apt folder and the two mentioned files do not exist. But two directories with similar names do: /etc/apt/preferences.d/ and /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/
This confuses me. Should I simply create the "preferences" and "apt.conf" files like the tutorials suggest or is this some form of different apt configuration where appropriate files have to be put inside these folders (like apache2 which uses sites-enabled and sites-available instead of one large httpd.conf file)?
Anything that the tutorial says to put in /etc/apt/preferences can be put in a file in /etc/apt/preferences.d/ directory and the same with /etc/apt/conf.d
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