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There are also pre-released versions of binaries that are useful for testing before making an official release.
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This article describes several options if you would like to try out pre-released versions of ROS binaries.
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When packages are released into a ROS distribution (using bloom), the buildfarm builds them into deb packages which are stored temporarily in the **building** apt repository.
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As dependent packages are rebuilt, an automatic process periodically synchronizes the packages in **building** to a secondary repository called **ros-testing**.
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**ros-testing** is intended as a soaking area where developers and bleeding-edge users may give the packages extra testing, before they are manually synced into the public ros repository from which users typically install packages.
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Approximately every two weeks, the rosdistro's release manager manually synchronizes the contents of **ros-testing** into the **main** ROS repository.
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For Debian-based operating systems, you can install binary packages from the **ros-testing** repository.
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1. Make sure you have a working ROS 2 installation from deb packages (see :doc:`../Installation`).
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2. Install the ``ros2-testing-apt-source`` package
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This will automatically uninstall the ``ros2-apt-source`` package since only one repository may be enabled at a time.
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2. Install the ros2-testing-apt-source package.
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This will automatically uninstall the ros2-apt-source package since only one repository may be enabled at a time.
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.. code-block:: console
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$ sudo apt install -y ros2-testing-apt-source
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3. Update the ``apt`` index:
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3. Update the apt index:
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.. code-block:: console
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6. Once you are finished testing, you can switch back to the normal repository by re-installing the ``ros-apt-source`` package:
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6. Once you are finished testing, you can switch back to the normal repository by re-installing the ros-apt-source package:
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$ sudo apt install -y ros-apt-source
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$ sudo apt install -y ros2-apt-source
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$ sudo apt update
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For RHEL you can install binary packages from the **ros-testing** repository, by enabling the testing repository on the source configuration:
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1. Make sure you have a working ROS 2 installation for rpm packages (see the :doc:`RHEL installation instructions <RHEL-Install-RPMs>`).
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