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Re: [trinity-users] Ubuntu 12.04 port status??

From: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 13:23:00 -0500
> On Fri, 11 May 2012 14:18:15 +0200
> Dexter Filmore <Dexter.Filmore@...> wrote:
>
>> On Saturday 05 May 2012 20:43:36 Timothy Pearson wrote:
>> > > Hello, when you manage to package a working TDE (stable or GIT) for
>> > > Ubuntu 12.04, I'm interested in getting the source Ubuntu packages,
>> so
>> > > that I can try to recompile them for my Toshiba AC100, which runs
>> Ubuntu
>> > > 12.04 armhf.
>> > >
>> > > Also, has anyone planned to rebuild the stable 3.5.13 or
>> 3.5.13+updates
>> > > on Ubuntu 12.04 ?
>> > >
>> > > Francois
>> >
>> > I am not going to, as there were many changes to the base system that
>> make
>> > 3.5.13 incompatible with 12.04.  If someone else wanted to they could,
>> but
>> > it won't be particularly easy.
>> >
>> > Tim
>>
>> Uh... I read this as "no Trinity for Ubuntu 12.04 as long as noone else
>> tinkers it into shape".
>> Did I get something wrong here?
>
> I think "the next Trinity release will hopefully be compatible, but I
> won't be
> repackaging the current Trinity release for the Ubuntu version in
> question, because
> I have too much on my plate and don't have the time" would be more
> accurate.
> You can still grab the source and try to build, the same as anyone else
> whose
> distro isn't presently supported.

R14.0 nightly packages are available, so if you don't mind using
development code (which should be about Beta quality at this point) you
can install TDE on 12.04.

See http://trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/view/Developers/NightlyBuilds for
more details.

Tim