also sprach Glenn Becker <burningc@sdf.lonestar.org> [2008.03.31.2259 +0200]: >> I am wanting to install Homebank on an Etch machine. Trouble is, it >> looks like it is only available for testing/Lenny and Sid. > > I wish I had my copy next to me, but I know Martin Krafft's excellent > book _The Debian System_ has some good material on how to safely mix and > match like this. One of the better tech books I have ever read: it's > ultra-dog-eared! :) You won't be able to safely mix and match that, because of the dependencies. Also, a backport will require a backport of libgtk2.0-0, which might be a lot of trouble, but I don't know. Talk to the backports-users@lists.backports.org list. Or set up a lenny chroot to run it. My book explains how to do that (in the context of amd64), even with bind mounts for /home and stuff. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems i welcome your constructive criticism and corrections.
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