John Peter wrote: > I would like to install gaim from unstablle.I am on testing. > I edited my sources.list to reflect unstable sources( also > added stable ), main, contrib and non-free > Then I did : > apt-get update > apt-get build-dep gaim > John I am also very new to Debian, but I'm not sure I understand why you didn't do it this way: apt-get update apt-get install gaim