newer shotwell?

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 3:14 AM, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
> Running Lucid on 2 boxes, both updated. One has shotwell 0.7, the
> other has 0.5. Synaptic shows these as the latest versions on the 2
> machines respectively.
>
> (1) Why is the 'latest' version in Synaptic different on the 2 Lucid
> machines?
>
> (2) What is the best way to get the latest shotwell pre-built version
> for **Lucid**? Shotwell site warns of dependency problems - is it safe
> to build the latest non-Ubuntu shotwell on Lucid - with NO problems?
>
> Thanks...
>
> --
> Best regards,
>  rikona

Don't know why, but:

Ubuntu 12.04 ships with Shotwell 0.12

Perhaps you could install newer release from Yorba's PPA:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yorba/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install shotwell

L.


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