On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 16:16 -0400, Barry Smith wrote:
> Yet the Ubuntu Repos only provide 2.32.2.
> Is there a PPA or some other repo which I should add to something
> (instructions would be nice) so that I can install a more recent
> version of evo into Ubuntu?

https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3 provides GNOME3. 
See the big warning.

> http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/download.shtml
> mentions 3.0.2 as the latest stable version, but has no link or
> document guiding the less-experienced user with very little successful
> experience compiling on Linux through the process.

Feel free to file an enhancement request in bugzilla.gnome.org

> Next idle question -- if I download the evolution 3.0.2 download from
> the download page above, Linux Apps are built upon package
> dependencies... so how do I tell RPM that I have no friggin clue what
> the dependencies are, and it needs to "go get 'em"... like APT and
> synaptic does?

RPM actually will complain anyway if dependencies are missing...

> Okay... as mentioned above... how to I tell synaptic and "Update
> Manager" ... in Ubuntu... to find the latest stable release of Evo...
> along with any dependencies?

By adding a repository that provides them; see above. :-P
Better to ask in an Ubuntu forum if there is a separate Evo 3.0 package
to run on Ubuntu 11.04 with its 2.32 stack, however unlikely because of
all the other dependencies to fulfil.

andre
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