installing SID (Unstable) debian packages (Pulseaudio)

[Harald654]

Hello,

is it possible to install a packages of the SID (Unstable) debian distribution?

I have tried:

Terminal

xbian@RPi2 ~ $ sudo apt-get install pulseaudio/unstable
[sudo] password for xbian:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Release 'unstable' for 'pulseaudio' was not found

Background: I want to use Pulseauo with the funktion "lfe-crossover-freq" wich is implemented since version 7.0. The Debian Pulseauo version are only 5.0, but the SID distribution has 9.0.

Greetings,
H.

[Nachteule]

Probably not, you'll get a lot of missing dependencies. Use jessie-backport repo instead, it has pulseaudio 7.1

https://packages.debian.org/jessie-backports/pulseaudio

So you have to add jessie-backport to file /etc/apt/sources.list

Terminal

root@xbian ~ # cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://http.debian.net/debian jessie main non-free
deb http://http.debian.net/debian jessie-backports main non-free
root@xbian ~ # apt-cache policy pulseaudio
pulseaudio:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 5.0-13
Version table:
7.1-2~bpo8+1 0
100 http://http.debian.net/debian/ jessie-backports/main armhf Packages
5.0-13 0
500 http://http.debian.net/debian/ jessie/main armhf Packages

[Harald654]

Great, 7.1 works well

Big thanks!