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

[Marc Wiriadisastra]

On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 09:31 -0400, Steve wrote:
> On 10/27/05, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> > It's always your option to skip the .debs and build any app from the
> > tarball.
> > --
> > derek
> 
> Just for my clarification, I am trying to install the latest gnumeric
> on Hoary... I've downloaded the source and when I type ./configure, it
> mentions a list of packages that are not the version it requires. If I
> understand what you said, can I just write down all the packages that
> it needs, download source for them, install/upgrade them one at a
> time, and then eventually get back to installing gnumeric and it
> SHOULD work?
> 
> I think I understand (vaguely) the concept of dependencies, but I have
> not really messed around with software other than using synaptic and
> apt-get to install packages from the repositories.

Yes theoretically that /should/ work however it can cause issues if
certain packages are incompatible with the packages you currently have.
e.g. it requires gcc4 for example and you need gcc3.4 for your current
system.  I'm not saying that is the example but it may occur
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