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 at 2b1.de> wrote:
> 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:
> > 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