"der.hans" wrote: > > Am 25. May, 2001 schwäzte Eric Richardson so: > > > I'm trying to compile a program gbonds on Debian stable. I've installed > > the libxxx-dev packages needed and since libgnome was too old, 1.0.56 > > instead of 1.2.xx, I downloaded the source from testing and compiled it. > > So far so good. I worked with the debian packager for about a week and he gave up. We tried everthing and couldn't get it to compile. I haven't tried the precompiled versions yet. > > Could you just use libgnome from testing? Using the configged apt-test I > posted last week allows you to not dirty your stable package lists. > > BTW, apt-get can now handle specifying dist, e.g.: > > apt-get install libgnome/testing This doesn't work in stable. I tried. Eric R.