I've been having some trouble manually installing packages and so I was wondering if I can "trick" the GNOME 3 team's PPA to think I'm using Ubuntu 12.10, so I can install GNOME 3.6 software easily on Ubuntu 12.04.
Once it's done, though, I do want to change it back to 12.04 instead of the "fake" 12.10.
So, what this boils down to: How can I temporarily change my version identifier?
I would try adding the PPA the "normal" way (sudo add-apt-repository). Before running sudo apt-get update, I would open the /etc/apt/sources.list.d, and look for a file who's title resembles the ppa you added. As a root user, open the file with your favorite text editor, and replace all instances of the word precise, with quantal. Then, run sudo apt-get update, and install your desired packages. From there, change your ppa back, (or re-add with add-apt-repository), and run sudo apt-get update, to prevent other potentially problematic packages from installing.
