newer shotwell?

[Colin Law]

On 10 May 2012 07:14, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
> Running Lucid on 2 boxes, both updated. One has shotwell 0.7, the
> other has 0.5. Synaptic shows these as the latest versions on the 2
> machines respectively.
>
> (1) Why is the 'latest' version in Synaptic different on the 2 Lucid
> machines?
>
> (2) What is the best way to get the latest shotwell pre-built version
> for **Lucid**? Shotwell site warns of dependency problems - is it safe
> to build the latest non-Ubuntu shotwell on Lucid - with NO problems?

As others have suggested you probably have different repositories
specified for the two machines.  In a terminal run

apt-cache policy shotwell

to find out where they are coming from

Colin