Upgradeable packages of Ubuntu 16.04 are in xenial-proposed.
The packages will be moved to xenial-update after a while.
This article will describe installing packages in xenial-proposed.
Table of Contents
1 Add xenial-proposed
Add xenial-proposed and update package list.
$ sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ \ xenial-proposed restricted main multiverse universe' \ > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xenial-proposed.list" $ sudo apt update -y
2 Install xenial-proposed package
Install xenial-proposed package.
$ sudo apt -t xenial-proposed install -y <pkgname>
Do not run "apt upgrade" because all upgradeable packages will be installed.
3 Remove xenial-proposed
Remove xenial-proposed and update package list.
$ sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xenial-proposed.list" $ sudo apt update -y