Re: [Evolution] [RFC - general discussion] GNOME standard email program should have "Remove Duplicates" feature by default...

[Barry Smith <bnsmith003 gmail com>]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Adam Tauno Williams
<awilliam whitemice org> wrote:
> IT IS ACTIVE IN 3.0.2.  I see it. It works.
>
> $ rpm -q evolution
> evolution-3.0.2-1.2.x86_64
$ rpm -q evolution
package evolution is not installed

Yet the Ubuntu Repos only provide 2.32.2.
Is there a PPA or some other repo which I should add to something
(instructions would be nice) so that I can install a more recent
version of evo into Ubuntu?
Just a note - the Evo site
(http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/?info=EXLINK , or more
specifically http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/download.shtml )
mentions 3.0.2 as the latest stable version, but has no link or
document guiding the less-experienced user with very little successful
experience compiling on Linux through the process.  Maybe just a note
on this page that "the enclosed README file explains how to compile
the application".
Next idle question -- if I download the evolution 3.0.2 download from
the download page above, Linux Apps are built upon package
dependencies... so how do I tell RPM that I have no friggin clue what
the dependencies are, and it needs to "go get 'em"... like APT and
synaptic does?

> Correct; Ubuntu chooses to use hacked and backward versions of packages.
> That is nobody's problem except Ubuntu's.  No one else it to blame.
Okay... as mentioned above... how to I tell synaptic and "Update
Manager" ... in Ubuntu... to find the latest stable release of Evo...
along with any dependencies?

Thank you,
-- 
Barry Smith