Re: [gedit-list] Gedit updates for Ubuntu
- From: Emmanuel Touzery <emmanuel touzery free fr>
- To: Peter Anderson <peter anderson internode on net>
- Cc: gedit-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: [gedit-list] Gedit updates for Ubuntu
- Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 08:48:48 +0100
Hello,
Peter Anderson wrote:
Thanks for your considered and detailed reply. I certainly understand
more about the current process than I did before. I presume from all
of the above that the only way one gets an upgrade for G-edit is to
upgrade GNOME and the only way to upgrade GNOME is to upgrade to the
latest release of your favourite distribution (Ubuntu in my case).
This may sound naive, but its not a particularly user friendly
approach and while I understand what happens I'm not sure this is a
systems building approach I would have taken during my working days.
It certainly makes the value of Ubuntu's "Long Term Support" claim a
bit dubious.
If I could ask one last question - is it possible to upgrade the
complete GNOME environment on say Ubuntu 6.06 or is that just too
difficult.
Thanks again for bearing with my uninformed requests and for providing
such a sound reply.
I'm happy it helped.
About upgrading the GNOME in dapper... it's possible, tools such as
jhbuild or GARGNOME would help you, see:
http://gnomedesktop.org/node/2776
However GNOME is big and complex, and it's probably better to stay with
the one from your distribution, which was widely tested in your software
environment (gcc version, hal version, ...) and is supported for
security upgrades. installing your own version of GNOME means that
you're on your own for security upgrades, etc.
If you really need a newer gedit, upgrading ubuntu would be the best
solution I think (it's not that hard, and generally it's reliable). For
that, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EdgyReleaseNotes section "Upgrade from
6.06 LTS".
emmanuel
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