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well I can tell you for certain what the brasero problem is. The version in the repo is not "absurdly outdated", in fact it is the most up to date you will find for felicia and intrepid. The version number does not (in this case) represent it's recency, in fact it could be considered equivalent to v2.24. The reason for this is that brasero is now linked to the gnome development since it has been accepted as a new app, see line 237 of the changelog: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/brasero/bra ... iew=markup where it states "synced version number with GNOME's". brasero 2.26 unsurprisingly requires gnome v2.26, which was only released a couple of months ago, and you'll find it in gloria when released.

Not quite sure what your problem with gthumb is since, according to http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite ... rds=gthumb Gthumb has been at version 2.10 since hardy (and hence elyssa)

Have you tried to install them from synaptic? If not - do so, you don`t always need the latest version for a software to work and fulfill your needs. In fact, sometimes "newer" versions seem to be much more buggy than the older ones(example: amarok2). I`ve been using Linux for 2 years now, and still compiling software from source is the last thing i would want to do, i would always stick to the version that is in the repositories.

If you really want to compile, check if you installed build-essentials from the repositories. If you have this package installed, how do you compile the source?
You should run (in the directory where the source code is):
and if there weren`t any critical errors, you can install the package by executing If you have some errors when configuring/installing package, please post them here/google them, otherwise nobody would be able to help you.