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[Justin Gruenberg]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Res <res at ausics.net> wrote:
> genius, there is no such package

packages.ubuntu.com isn't loading for me... but according to the
google cached version, it's been at 0.1.1 (the version the originator
had) since at least jaunty.

$ aptitude show gnome-format
Package: gnome-format
State: not installed
Version: 0.1.1-0ubuntu7
Priority: optional
Section: universe/gnome
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
Uncompressed Size: 209k
[...]


> Not really, perhaps she wants to use a modern feature of a program that is
> not available in the version ubuntu distribute.
>
>
> The thing about Linux is there is a little thing called 'choice' :)

Sometimes its better to find out what they're really trying to do...
I'll admit I didn't do too well.  But I sort of doubt the original
author really wanted to download the source for the program, compile
and install it when a package is available that will be maintained by
the package system.  I could be wrong.