Shotwell in Lucid

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 6:02 PM, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
> Running Lucid. Noticed Shotwell will be the default photo mgr in new
> releases - also looks pretty good, so thought I'd get a head start
> learning it. The Shotwell version in the repos is quite old [0.5].
> There is a newer backport in a PPA that states NOT to use it because
> it is "guaranteed to break your computer". Hmmm...
>
> Has anyone running Lucid used a later version without 'breaking the
> computer'? If so, where was it?
>
> The PPA also backports several other pkgs - is this the reason it
> breaks stuff?
>
> If I do try the gamble, and it breaks stuff, how can I recover to
> where I was?
>

Perhaps you could enable Shotwell PPA repo for Lucid -

https://launchpad.net/~yorba/+archive/ppa?field.series_filter=lucid

 - upgrade to release 0.7.2-1~lucid1 and test it.

If it does not behave properly, you could remove it, disable the
source and reinstall the standard Shotwell release.

I imagine it couldn't do any harm, but I may be wrong.

L.

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Lucio M. Nicolosi, Eng.
Open Source Implementation
System and Applications
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