[Shotwell] Running an older version of Shotwell with a database from newer version

[Andrew Stacey]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 08:05:03AM -0700, EnochRoot wrote:
> Hi there Shotwellers
> 
> I've recently moved from Xubuntu to CrunchBang after troublesome 11.10
> upgrade. As CrunchBang is by default using Debian Squeeze, the version of
> Shotwell is quite a bit older than the one I was using on Xubuntu so get an
> error on startup about the database being created from a newer version which
> is indeed the case.
> 
> Am going to investigate what options I have for getting a newer version of
> Shotwell - obviously could compile from source but am not certain that my
> box will have new enough versions of all the lib dependencies. Does anyone
> happen to know if Shotwell can be built on Debian Squeeze as is ?

I've built shotwell on top of Debian Squeeze.  Yes, you have to install a few
newer versions of libraries.  There were a couple of main libraries that
I installed newer versions of so to avoid conflicts I put them in
a non-standard place ($HOME/local/lib) and then I call shotwell via a shell
script that sets $LD_LIBRARY_PATH before calling shotwell.

If you would be interested, I can dig back and see what extra I installed.

Andrew Stacey