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My version of Debian is Jessie, and I'm using sabnzbd 6.15. My couchpotato is now complaining that my version of Sabnzbd is too old.

:~$ sabnzbdplus --version

sabnzbdplus-0.6.15


The method I used to update it was this:
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

###add the line below at the bottom of the file
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/jcfp/ppa/ubuntu trusty main

###update the system
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade


The upgrade caught something new, but didn't upgrade Sabnzbd, see below.
machine@machine:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
libgdiplus sabnzbdplus sabnzbdplus-theme-plush sabnzbdplus-theme-smpl
The following packages will be upgraded:
sabnzbdplus-theme-classic
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Need to get 9,946 B of archives.
After this operation, 272 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y

At the end of it, I'm still on the same version.

you need apt-get dist-upgrade rather than just upgrade. See the apt-get manpage for the difference.

Edit: before you proceed, be sure about your debian version. Jessie comes with sab 0.7.18, not 0.6.15; the latter suggests you're actually using wheezy. For that, the closest ubuntu equivalent release isn't trusty but precise, also see here!

:~$ cat /etc/*-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="8"
VERSION="8 (jessie)"