Olwe Bottorff wrote: > I'm on Debian at work and the sysadmin likes things > stable and thus rather out-of-date. I'd like to have > Opera (sessions addict), the newest Emacs22, > Acroreader7 without rocking the boat too much. Could I > install such (rather large) apps as a regular user to > my home directory? I guessing Opera and Acro might > fly, but Emacs...not sure. > > Olwe Give a look at www.backports.org assuming whatever whizbang you need has made it into unstable or testing yet. It's a handy way to keep the main part of your system sane, while still getting to a small handful of apps with new features that you can't live without. Mark