On Thu, 2014-11-20 at 09:20 -0800, Michael Knepher wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Chris <cpollock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > 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 > > > Chris > > -- > Chris > KeyID 0xE372A7DA98E6705C > 31.11°N 97.89°W (Elev. 1092 ft) > 09:13:36 up 17:46, 1 user, load average: 0.29, 0.40, 0.32 > Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS, kernel 3.13.0-39-generic > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-list mailing list > gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-list mailing list > gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list -- Chris KeyID 0xE372A7DA98E6705C 31.11°N 97.89°W (Elev. 1092 ft) 12:01:53 up 20:34, 1 user, load average: 0.14, 0.21, 0.21 Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS, kernel 3.13.0-39-generic _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
