Shotwell in Lucid

[sktsee]

On Wed, 04 May 2011 21:41:42 -0700, rikona wrote:

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> Thanks for the encouragement. I'd like to know if anyone has done that
> without trouble. [Or am I the Guinea Pig... :-) ]
> 
> 
It's the PPA of the developers of Shotwell. Currently, Shotwell is the 
default image organizer program  in Ubuntu and other distros. That's a 
coveted position for a FOSS project looking to garner users and other devs 
wanting to contribute. I think it would be safe to assume that the 
Shotwell devs aren't going release packages that get the reputation of 
trashing systems. Of course, bugs happen and anytime you start installing 
software from third-parties you can increase the chance of something 
going wrong. That's why you should perform some due diligence before 
installing from a 3rd party source. Hell, it doesn't hurt to perform some 
due diligence even before installing something from Ubuntu (hello to all 
the Maverick to Natty upgraders out there :) )


s> However, the Yorba Shotwell page also links to a FAQ which mentions
> s> this PPA https://launchpad.net/~flexiondotorg/+archive/shotwell as s>
> one that provides the very latest version, 0.9.3, for Lucid.
> 
> This "guaranteed to break your computer" site was recommended by other
> sites as well.
> 
Actually, the one you are referring to is his Experimental branch
https://launchpad.net/~flexiondotorg/+archive/experimental. The one I am 
referring to is https://launchpad.net/~flexiondotorg/+archive/shotwell
which I erroneously stated provided the latest version, 0.9.3, when 
actually it's the next to latest, 0.9.2. Sorry for the mixup. I took a 
look at the Package list for this Shotwell PPA here:http://
ppa.launchpad.net/flexiondotorg/shotwell/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/binary-
i386/Packages. Out of the 15 packages listed, only six packages will be 
updated from the PPA assuming that your system already had the 
dependencies of those packages installed. Quickly glancing at the 
dependency lines of those six packages, nothing stood out to me as a 
program or library that wouldn't already be installed on your system.

That said, I think installing from the Yorba PPA would be your safest bet 
if you choose to updgrade Shotwell.

> The biggest caveat with using this PPA to upgrade Shotwell is that s>
> it replaces glib2.0. If you enter "apt-cache rdepends libglib2.0-0" s>
> in a terminal, you'll quickly see why this is a library that you s>
> don't want to update haphazardly. Practically everything on the s>
> system depends on it. If it breaks, expect much pain.
> 
> Thank you, thank you!! That was exactly my worry.
> 
> s> Also, it means you'll be dependent on upon the PPA and not Ubuntu s>
> for updating glib if any security updates or bug fixes become s>
> available for it.
> 
> I had not considered that - again, thanks. I guess also that that
> assumes they will do updates...

No, I wouldn't count on that. 

> 
> I really appreciate your detailed response that answered most of my
> questions.

You're welcome.

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