Where to put dev libs? Update

"der.hans" wrote:
>
> Am 06. Jun, 2001 schwäzte Eric Richardson so:
>
> > "der.hans" wrote:
>
> > > apt-get install libgnome/testing
> > This doesn't work in stable.
>
> Oops, sorry. I should've mentioned that. It's safe ( in my experience ) to
> grab apt from testing, then use it.
>
> Add testing to your sources, update, then "apt-get install apt". That will
> install 0.5.3. After that install libgnome/testing. Then comment out testing
> from your sources and update again. After the update without testing in your
> sources.list you won't get any more packages from testing.
>
> Play with libgnome from testing and see if it fixes your prob.
>
Is it safe to install? I just don't want it to clobber my currect Gnome
libs and make all the GUI stuff not work.

Eric