Setting up bitcoind -- old version?

[PrintCoins]

I followed these instructions to install bitcoind on a debian linux box:

http://bealers.com/2012/01/installing-bitcoin-on-debian-squeeze/

And this ended up being version 0.3.24 of bitcoind. Is bitcoin on debian that far behind the main release of bitcoin, or is it just that bitcoind by itself is at a different version number than bitcoin-qt?

[Foxpup]

Is bitcoin on debian that far behind the main release of bitcoin, or is it just that bitcoind by itself is at a different version number than bitcoin-qt?

No and no. Debian stable (squeeze), by definition, doesn't have the latest versions of anything. Debian unstable (sid) has bitcoind 0.6.2 for amd64, and bitcoind 0.6.0 for i386.

If you want to install the very latest version of Bitcoin (currently 0.6.3, though 0.7 is going to be released soon), download the tarball from bitcoin.org.

[wumpus]

Don't use 0.3.x it is a danger to yourself and to the network 

[PrintCoins]

These steps:

http://www.imped.net/2007/07/20/apt-pinning-installing-unstable-packages-on-stable-debian/

Got me to bitcoind (0.6.2.2-1).

I added the sources listed (but changed de to us in the ftp domains) and then did:

sudo apt-get -t experimental install bitcoind

This should work well for those who like to stick with apt for package management.

I don't know how debian packages are maintained, but can someone take the reins of pushing this to the stable branch. Most debian/ubuntu users just like to use apt to install packages, and this means there are many machines with outdated versions of bitcoind running.