Re: How best to try NM 0.8.2 please? (I almost managed to build it)

[Jirka Klimes <jklimes redhat com>]

On Wednesday 24 of November 2010 18:12:09 Matthew Dowle wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Looking at news from NM 0.8.2 I'm excited to see it seems to fix several
> of the issues I'm facing and would like to try it!
> 
> I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition, though.
> 
> At first I thought the only way was to build the tar.gz. Got through
> './configure' and 'make' ok but then I got an error from 'sudo
> checkinstall' that beat me.
> 
> I took a step back and it seems I have some other options :
> 
> i) install Narwhal image from daily-live
> ii) find a .deb for NM 0.8.2 that I could install on Meerkat.
> iii) add a PPA to sources.list
> iv) persist with the checkinstall error.
> 
> Any quick pointers to the right direction much appreciated.
> 

I'm not much familiar with Ubuntu, however all options seem reasonable to me. 
Just try one. Or you will have to wait until it's packaged :)

I wonder what error you got by checkinstall.

Jirka