Latest packages in gnome3-team/gnome3 PPA

Tim tim at feathertop.org
Thu Mar 21 01:37:30 UTC 2013


We will move the packages from gnome3-staging into gnome3 ppa as we feel they are ready. Provided you know how to ppa-purge etc, running staging
should be fairly safe for now.

Tim

On 21/03/13 12:12, Fran Dieguez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> GNOME 3.8 release date is just around the corner and it will be fully of new things. This afternoon I have installed Ubuntu-GNOME in my laptop
> and all is running well.
>
> BTW, I've added the gnome3-team/gnome3 PPA to get the latest versions for the GNOME environment. But I can see that in this stable PPA are not
> included some interesting versions, like gnome-control-center 3.7.91, gnome-contacts 3.7.90 and some more.
>
> I know that I can get all of them from the gnome3-team/gnome3-staging PPA, but in the past while using this PPA my system became unstable at
> some point. I think because this PPA, even after GNOME is released, gets the development version of the GNOME applications.
>
> So, I wondering if those 3.8 versions will be included in the "stable" PPA for enjoying the full 3.8 GNOME desktop. With the actual setup
> gnome-shell has links to the notifications panel but as gnome-control-center is an outdated version this doesn't work.
> The current g-c-c doesn't allows me to add new printers, and I can't access to the "Brightness & Lock" panel.
>
> Regards,
>
> Fran
>




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