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To install a package from Debian Unstable into my Testing release I've followed a solution found at Unix & Linux.

First, I added unstable as repository in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/unstable.list:

$ sudo cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/unstable.list
deb http://ftp.pl.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.pl.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free

Second, I set priorities for testing:

$ sudo cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/default-release
APT::Default-Release "testing";

After executing apt update update I searched for a package nautilus-actions which should be available for Sid. However, running apt search nautilus-actions give no result. Why?

menteith
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The reason you can’t install the package in either testing or unstable is that it was removed in September 2017 because it’s obsolete. It isn’t available in any release of Debian after that. It was supposed to be replaced by filemanager-actions, which was briefly available in Debian (but never released); the closest currently-available replacement is actions-for-nautilus which will hopefully be available in Debian soon.

When you looked for it, it was still listed as available in debports for arm64 but that was only because it hadn’t been cleaned up there; it wasn’t actually downloadable from debports (following the links available at the time led to a 404 error).

Stephen Kitt
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As your link says it's a debports package, so it is only available on arm64 architecture. Are you sure you're using an arm64 based machine?

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  • Thanks, I didn't know that. I don't run that kind of machine. – menteith Sep 10 '18 at 18:31
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    No, it’s not “only available on arm64”. The debports listing is a leftover and doesn’t point to an available file. It’s an obsolete package which has been removed. – Stephen Kitt Sep 10 '18 at 18:47