[rudra]

What a mess this ended up to be. Exactly as I thought. Messing with unstable package sources on a stable system is one of the worst ideas. Thank god it didn't came to apt-get upgrade. This would have resulted in a disaster if the upgrade had been pulled through without error messages from the package manager. It would have upgraded packages to unstable verions of pretty much the whole system and that would have wrecked the whole VPS.

HAHAHA

so true. Thanks for pointing that and it reminds me. for the sake of completeness.. here I mention an url where anyone interested will find in depth information on how to install some testing or unstable packages on a stable system.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions...n-provides

in short.
the simple way is to use backports. Debian has backports repositories just like Ubuntu.

Another messy way is to use pinning with properly configured priority assignment. But I guess that will be too much for our copy-paste-hit enter and cross fingers audience...

WTBD people wont read and want to know what the steps are meant for and how they work !! escapes me.