Re: Questions on Unique and Auto-increment

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 10:00 -0700, Earl Melton wrote:
> Murray, you said:
>
> > Please try this with our packages of the stable (even numbers)
> version
> > of Glom: 
> > http://www.glom.org/wiki/index.php?title=Download 
>
> but I'm so pathetic that I'm totally lost. I'm using v1.13.2 Is that
> an even-numbered version since it ends with a 2? Or should the 13 be a
> 14 or 16 or some such even number?
[snip]

Sorry. Glom 1.13.x is an unstable version. Glom 1.14. x is a stable
version.

>  I promise, I'm not trying to be cute or sarcastic here, I am
> honestly, 100% puzzled by everything and just seem to be going in
> circles when I really need to get to work. Would somebody please type
> the exact version number that I need and a link where I can download
> it? I should probably add that I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
>
> I go to the link above and look under the first selection which is
> Ubuntu. If I then click on Ubuntu Linux, it wants me to download
> Ubuntu. I already have this so I went back. I then click on the second
> link on that line which takes me to
> https://launchpad.net/~openismus-team/+archive/ppa
> That page says it's an untrusted PPA. Of course,

Yes, it does say that under "Adding this PPA to your system". That's
unnecessarily obscure, I agree. I'll ask Ubuntu to improve it.

However, you may choose to trust me. Or not.

> I don't know what PPA is,

A good point. I will ask Ubuntu to make that less obscure.

>  but I know I don't need anything that's untrusted. Or does that mean
> that [my PC] just doesn't trust it and I'm going to create a bond of
> trust there by adding ppa:openismus-team/ppa to my System Resources?

Yes, you will be deciding to trust us. This is not unlike when you
choose to trust some Windows software that you find on the internet and
install via an .exe.

>  I [think] I can follow the directions if that's what's needed, but
> may be begging again.
>
>  glom 
> 1.14.3-0ubuntu1openismus9 
> Murray Cumming
> (2010-06-20) 
>  libgdamm4.0 
> 3.99.18-0ubuntu1openismus4 
> Murray Cumming
> (2010-06-19) 
>
> Are these maybe the file/s I'm supposed to download?

Please follow the instructions on that page, under the "Adding this PPA
to your system" text that you already found. You should not download any
file directly.

>  If so, I can't find a button anywhere labeled 'Download'. And what
> the heck is Oubuntu?

It's just a part of the version number.

>  Are those the templates/examples I'm so desperately trying to find?

No, these are replacement Glom packages.

HOWEVER, I suggest that you wait until around Wednesday for me to
improve something. There is a small problem with these packges that I
guess that you will experience. And I don't think you will be able to
manage the workaround for that.

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