Ben West wrote:
requires updating to Ubuntu intrepid, 8.10: running 8.04, with plans not to upgrade until 9.04
Maybe you should take a look at building from source code. Get the latest from the subversion repository and check out what you need to do to build it on your platform.
http://www.geany.org/Download/SVN http://www.geany.org/Support/BuildingFromSource