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The method is based on SimpleBackportCreation Alternative (more simple method) to port a package to wheezy.
Add ONLY a "deb-src ..." line for sid to your sources.list:
As root: or just add it using synaptic or by directly editing the /etc/apt/sources.list file if you prefer. As normal user, build it: Now the ls command will show: Now install the deb: You may also need to do: Enjoy!

Exactly which dependency prevents its direct installation? A simple dependency check showed no errors.

No dependency problem with minitube_2.0-1_i386.deb from SID.

Quite often packages can be installed directly from sid or testing, apparently without backporting, for example, compiz may be installed as detailed in forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=436909 or the r8168 - dkms network driver as in viewtopic.php?f=5&t=85431#p455626; however, I'm simply going by the advice given in Newer_Software_For_Debian_Stable.

Backporting (recompiling and repackaging) is the only safe way to install packages from Debian Sid or Debian Testing on a Debian stable system. Do not install such packages without backporting.

It may, in some cases, be quite safe to install a package from sid directly without backporting and expert users can determine if it is OK but if one just posts a topic on the lines of:

Hooray! Minitube 2.0 has appeared in sid! Just download and install it using the gdebi package installer

then perhaps one is encouraging a rather careless approach to obtaining newer software in stable. I also noticed that the package in question can be installed directly; nevertheless, backporting it is the recommended way of doing it, especially in view of some of the mixed-up /etc/apt/sources.list files that get posted here.

I concur. I generally don't use a package if it can't be built in my environment.

kedaha wrote:I also noticed that the package in question can be installed directly; nevertheless, backporting it is the recommended way of doing it

But checking the dependencies is the only fun part of backporting, and you did not write about it. Even backporting testdisk from Sid to Squeeze was more interesting, and it only needed one (independent) library.

emariz wrote:

kedaha wrote:I also noticed that the package in question can be installed directly; nevertheless, backporting it is the recommended way of doing it

But checking the dependencies is the only fun part of backporting, and you did not write about it. Even backporting testdisk from Sid to Squeeze was more interesting, and it only needed one (independent) library.

Yes, it's not so interesting if there are no hitches. I've tried backporting compiz with the same procedure but didn't it build as might've been expected, having seen Craigevil's post; but more of that, maybe, in a different topic.

@kedaha:
Thanks for sharing...

INCROYABLE ..... BRAVO ....
it works fine (sorry for my english i am french ... (frogs if you prefer))

Friends good !! (as the Frankeistein's monster say)

Merci beaucoup ...
I learn how to do a dpkg build to a target

Thanks a lot

Guy

Worked like a charm kedaha thanks and yes I had to
apt-get install phonon-backend-gstreamer
I had no sound and that solved it

Thanks for the replies which are encouraging. The idea was just to post an example of how to backport a useful package to stable oneself where it was not available from Debian backports rather than "upgrade" to testing to obtain such software.