Quote Originally Posted by didac
I like the apt-get option but the debian testing distribution is just catching up too slow.
Just use unstable. It's just as up to date or more so than any other linux distro.

apt-get install program_x/unstable

or

apt-get -t unstable install program_x

The second option will usually work when you need to resolve dependency problems. I use this all the time and it works great.