question regarding required libraries

["Joseph de los Santos" <jh0u hotmail com>]

Hello,

I would like to know if an older version of a required library can be used 
with those programs that require certain libraries to work without any 
problems. i.e. I am currently using debian slink 2.1 with the icewm window 
manager and I want to install sawmill but then sawmill requires certain 
libraries to work but what i have are older versions of those libraries. Are 
those required by sawmill or any other programs i.e. everybuddy, need 
specific versions of required libraries or older versions of libraries can 
be used?

Any info would be greatly appreciated.
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