Careful though, make sure you add an option to your apt config file telling it to favour stable packages, otherwise when you upgrade you'll get all the testing packages since they have higher version numbers.

Check out this howto for more info:

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html#s-default-ver...

Julian

Daniel Vainsencher wrote:

Or you can add the testing source instead of replacing, and then apt-get install <yourpackage> -t testing.

No guarantees, but I use this to use unstable versions of some packages while generally living in stable.

Daniel

Ingo Hohmann ingo@2b1.de wrote:

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Hi Derek,

libc6 2.3.1 is in testing, if you are willing to upgrade ...

change 'stable' to 'testing' in /etc/apt/sources.lst , e.g.

deb ftp://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib

becomes

deb ftp://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib

and you'll get it (along with a whole lot of other upgrades ...)

I hope that helps,

Ingo

Derek Brans wrote:

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The squeak-vm package depends on libc6 2.3.1, but when I do an install using apt-get, the newest stable version is 2.2.5