Re: Gnome version

[Chris <cpollock embarqmail com>]

On Thu, 2014-11-20 at 09:20 -0800, Michael Knepher wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Chris <cpollock embarqmail com>
> wrote:
>         On Thu, 2014-11-20 at 15:06 +0100, Marcus Karlsson wrote:
>         > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 07:09:00AM -0600, Chris wrote:
>         > > These may seem like a pretty basic question to many on
>         this list and
>         > > they probably are however I need to ask. I'm not new to
>         Linux or Gnome
>         > > in fact I've been running Linux for at least 10yrs now. I
>         recently
>         > > switched to Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS after my old Mandriva box
>         finally gave in
>         > > and died. During one of my software installs (can't
>         remember which it
>         > > was) I upgraded Gnome from 3.10 which comes with 14.04 to
>         3.12.2 (or is
>         > > this just Gnome-Shell)?
>         >
>         > The packages in Ubuntu 14.04 is a mix of pieces from 3.6 to
>         3.10.
>         >
>         > > My version of Evolution is 3.12.7 which I've
>         > > reported several bug on and I've been told have been fixed
>         in .8.
>         > > Question being, and hopefully someone will help me out,
>         how do I upgrade
>         > > Evolution to 3.12.8 without totally breaking my system, or
>         is it even
>         > > possible?
>         >
>         > The best solution would be to get an update from the same
>         place where
>         > you got the 3.12 updates. Hopefully whoever made that
>         package will
>         > provide an updated package, but you might have to ping them
>         about it.
>         >
>         > If that's not happening then building Evolution from source
>         is another
>         > alternative. You might have to install a number of
>         development packages.
>         > Running 'apt-get build-dep evolution' should hopefully be
>         enough. A tool
>         > like jhbuild can also help with this.
>         >
>         >               Marcus
>         >
>         
>         Morning Marcus, thank you for the quick reply. After reading
>         the above I
>         went and Googled ubuntu + evolution 3.12.8 and came up with
>         this:
>         
>         https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/3.12.8-0ubuntu1/+build/6583522
>         
>         If I'm reading this correctly, and I'm probably not, does the
>         word
>         PROPOSED mean that if approved or whatever this will end up in
>         the
>         repositories as an update?
>
>
> It appears to be a proposed package for Vivid, which will be 15.04. If
> you're running 3.12, I'm guessing you're using the gnome3-team ppa? It
> looks like even their -staging repository is still at 3.12.7, as well,
> even for 14.10. Perhaps filing a bug on their launchpad to see if you
> can get some traction on updating the version for 14.04? Letting them
> know which evolution bugs are fixed by the update may be helpful.
>
>
> Michael Knepher
Thanks Michael, I'll do that. Where on Launchpad would I go to do this,
just launchpad.net/ubuntu?

Chris

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