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-version

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 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
> 
> 


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