building gkrellm

[Joep L. Blom]

On 26-07-12 15:54, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> Am Donnerstag, den 26.07.2012, 15:37 +0200 schrieb Joep L. Blom:
>> I have a problem with upgrading gkrellm from version 2.3.4 to 2.3.5.
>> I am running (still) Lucid as I dead upgrading.
>> However. when I want to install with gdebi installer
>> gkrellm_2.3.5-3_amd64.deb it comes with all sort of dependency errors.
>> OK I download the individual files which are missing (i.e. a version too
>> old) but it kept going on anjd on and every package I install asks for
>> another younger version of a package I have.
>> Is there a better way to install an upgrade for Ubuntu Lucid (supported
>> until 2014) of a standard package when it is not explicitly recompiled
>> for a still supported version?
> how about https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports ? 2.3.5-3 is in
> quantal, it shouldnt be a problem to ask for a backport here if the
> build dependencies arent to weird (file a request bug, the backports
> team will be able to judge)
>
> ciao
> 	oli
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Oliver,
Thanks for the tip. I'll go that route.
Joep