Hello all, Thanks for the patience on the FC3 threads. Ya'll convinced me to shifty over to a new distro and I went to Kubuntu 6.06 yesterday. Have had some hell with merging home folders, but nothing too deadly.
Imagine my horror to find that the latest inkscape in the apt repos is 0.43-something! The same one I had on FC3 :Mad spinny eye smiley here:
So, I understood that ubuntu was kinda the dev distro (Windows aside) of choice, surely there must be debs of 0.44 by now?
How do debs normally get to ubuntu repos? Is it a committee kinda thing, with a central scrutinizer or can you quickly update a package if you make a new deb?
So, what's the best way for me to get ink 0.44 (official release vers) up and running on *ubuntu 6.06 ? Cos i'm really tired of Windows edging Linux out on it's own software!
Best, Donn.
Hi Donn
Imagine my horror to find that the latest inkscape in the apt repos is 0.43-something! The same one I had on FC3 :Mad spinny eye smiley here:
There is a good reason to this : 0.44 has been issued just a few days after ubuntu 6.06. But don't worry : you just have to uninstall inkscape from your ubuntu box, and then download an autopackage -> it works without any problem. Other potential solution, download the sources and compile them (there is even a documentation page about compiling on the different releases of ubuntu on the wiki).
Cheers,
matiphas
Selon Donn <donn.ingle@...400...>:
There is a good reason to this : 0.44 has been issued just a few days after ubuntu 6.06.
Okay. :'( Any idea how long before it's in the ubuntu repo? I would prefer to keep apt-get in control of packages.
You can maybe google for "ubuntu dapper backports" -> it may give you a repo for dapper that contains inkscape0_44.deb
If you look in this thread http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=202916&highlight=inkscape+0... you should find a deb file the you can install. If the download don't work I have a local copy email me and I will send it to anyone who needs it. Just a note, i did make it i just used it.
Joshua L. Blocher verbalshadow
On 8/3/06, Donn <donn.ingle@...400...> wrote:
Hello all, Thanks for the patience on the FC3 threads. Ya'll convinced me to shifty over to a new distro and I went to Kubuntu 6.06 yesterday. Have had some hell with merging home folders, but nothing too deadly.
Imagine my horror to find that the latest inkscape in the apt repos is 0.43-something! The same one I had on FC3 :Mad spinny eye smiley here:
So, I understood that ubuntu was kinda the dev distro (Windows aside) of choice, surely there must be debs of 0.44 by now?
How do debs normally get to ubuntu repos? Is it a committee kinda thing, with a central scrutinizer or can you quickly update a package if you make a new deb?
So, what's the best way for me to get ink 0.44 (official release vers) up and running on *ubuntu 6.06 ? Cos i'm really tired of Windows edging Linux out on it's own software!
Best, Donn.
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On Friday 04 August 2006 04:53, Joshua Blocher wrote:
If you look in this thread http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=202916&highlight=inkscape+0... +deb you should find a deb file the you can install. If the download don't work I have a local copy email me and I will send it to anyone who needs it. Just a note, i did make it i just used it.
Thanks Joshua. I guess the main question us (l)users :) are asking is how and when do official releases of inkscape get into the major Linux repos? I don't code OSS so I have no idea. Is it a volunteer responsibility of a member of the OSS team? Is it a thing that a Debian/Ubuntu "official" has to do - come asking for a release? Is it because they take a certain amount of time to check the release first?
See what I mean? It's confusing.
Donn wrote:
Thanks Joshua. I guess the main question us (l)users :) are asking is how and when do official releases of inkscape get into the major Linux repos?
Usually there is a person being the maintainer of the package for each distro. This is often a volunteer, doing it in his spare time and he may maintain a lot of other packages (read: have a little free time).
I don't code OSS so I have no idea. Is it a volunteer responsibility of a member of the OSS team? Is it a thing that a Debian/Ubuntu "official" has to do - come asking for a release? Is it because they take a certain amount of time to check the release first?
The maintainer have to notice first the release (if he is a volunteer working in his spare time it may take a while), try to build it, build it successfully (this may be a problem, see your troubles with FC3), do a little testing (this may be: it seems to run but may be serious testing, depending on the distro) and push the update to the appropriate channels. This happen at each distro, having more or less communication with the upstream developers (in this case Inkscape project is "upstream").
On top of that, considering the risks introduced by the update and the required dependencies, the new release may end in a stable branch and/or in a development branch.
Thanks for the info Nicu.
Usually there is a person being the maintainer of the package for each distro. This is often a volunteer, doing it in his spare time and he may maintain a lot of other packages (read: have a little free time).
Right, gotcha.
The maintainer have to notice first the release (if he is a volunteer working in his spare time it may take a while), try to build it, build it successfully (this may be a problem, see your troubles with FC3),
Amen.
do a little testing (this may be: it seems to run but may be serious testing, depending on the distro) and push the update to the appropriate channels.
This happen at each distro, having more or less communication with the upstream developers (in this case Inkscape project is "upstream").
What do you mean inkscape is 'upstream'? That it is a big, official project? Well known by Ubuntu and other distro devs?
On top of that, considering the risks introduced by the update and the required dependencies, the new release may end in a stable branch and/or in a development branch.
I see. Thanks, I had no idea what was involved.
Donn.
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