On 8/12/07, Michael Fothergill <mikef20000@hotmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for the advice. I will keep my nose out of gnash unless I decide at
some point to install debian testing (Lenny) etc.......
What you might try is to check to see if there is a backport of gnash available for your
distribution and architecture first. That would be far preferable to simplly try and install
newer packages on top of an existing distribution by downloading the *deb files.
If that doesn't work (maybe there is no gnash in backports) you could either compile & install a
local version and use that in the time being, or use apt-pinning and get certain packages from
unstable. However, some of those libraries are pretty basic system components (such as libgcc1)
so the net effect may be to basically upgrade your system to lenny or sid just to be able to run
one application, which doesn't seem to me the right way to go.
Regards
Michael Fothergill