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-## Package pinning
-
-You need to configure
-[apt-pinning](http://wiki.debian.org/AptPreferences#Pinning-1) preferences in
-order to prevent packages being pulled from the debian wheezy distribution in
-preference to the stable distribution once you have added the wheezy repository
-as described below.
-
-In order to configure apt-pinning and to keep most packages coming from the
-Debian stable repository while installing the ones required from wheezy and the
-mySociety repository you need to run the following commands:
-
- echo "Package: *" >> /tmp/preferences
- echo "Pin: release a=squeeze-backports">> /tmp/preferences
- echo "Pin-Priority: 200" >> /tmp/preferences
- echo "" >> /tmp/preferences
- echo "Package: *" >> /tmp/preferences
- echo "Pin: release a=wheezy">> /tmp/preferences
- echo "Pin-Priority: 50" >> /tmp/preferences
- sudo cp /tmp/preferences /etc/apt/
- rm /tmp/preferences
-
## Install system dependencies
These are packages that the software depends on: third-party software used to