Can I use more recent versions of applications than what is in the repositories?

[Dave M G]

Marc,
	Thank you for the explanation of the situation. I understand and
appreciate the trade off between stability and having the latest.
	I'm hoping you could give a little more detail on the following:

> That is the intention of ubuntu-backports.

I'm not sure what this is in direct reference to. Do you mean that
"ubuntu-backports" is a method of acquiring Debian packages?

> Although you will have to wait a little bit since dapper needs to get
> established first before backports will work.

Who, or what, is "dapper"?

> The reason why gnucash isn't the latest is because ubuntu will freeze and
> fix bugs in the packages instead of constantly updating them and risking
> bringing in other bugs.

I'm a little surprised, though, that the latest Gnucash is that
unstable. I have files from when I was using Gnucash on CentOS, which is
an even more cautious distribution than Ubuntu. I tried to open the same
file in my Ubuntu installation of Gnucash, and it said that my file was
from a newer version and couldn't be opened. It's odd that CentOS would
have a newer and less table version of Gnucash than Ubuntu.

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Dave M G