building gkrellm

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Donnerstag, den 26.07.2012, 15:37 +0200 schrieb Joep L. Blom:
> I have a problem with upgrading gkrellm from version 2.3.4 to 2.3.5.
> I am running (still) Lucid as I dead upgrading.
> However. when I want to install with gdebi installer 
> gkrellm_2.3.5-3_amd64.deb it comes with all sort of dependency errors. 
> OK I download the individual files which are missing (i.e. a version too 
> old) but it kept going on anjd on and every package I install asks for 
> another younger version of a package I have.
> Is there a better way to install an upgrade for Ubuntu Lucid (supported 
> until 2014) of a standard package when it is not explicitly recompiled 
> for a still supported version?
how about https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports ? 2.3.5-3 is in
quantal, it shouldnt be a problem to ask for a backport here if the
build dependencies arent to weird (file a request bug, the backports
team will be able to judge)

ciao
	oli
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