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A Short Introduction To Apt-Pinning This article is a short overview of how to use apt-pinning on Debian and Debian-based distributions (like Ubuntu). Apt-Pinning allows you to use multiple releases (e.g. stable, testing, and unstable) on your system and to specify when to install a package from which release. That way you can run a system based mostly on the stable release, but also install some newer packages from testing or unstable (or third-party repositories).
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By: Anonymous
I'd just like to point out that if you have set APT::Default-Release in apt.conf it will prevent pinning. This behaviour was not exactly obvious to me.