If you run into any issues feel free to post to the list. Plenty of helpful people around! If I can get around to it this weekend I was thinking about doing a step by step guide similar to the one I linked you to on a stock Ubuntu installation. On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Gary Lawrence Murphy <[email protected]>wrote:
> thanks ... I just might do that > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 9:54 PM, David Velazquez < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Shotwell .8.1 will not be backported for Lucid due to (I think) issues >> with the minimum and maximum versions of Vala it can use. You can, however, >> build Shotwell from source. While this is more difficult than using the PPA >> it's really not nearly as difficult as it sounds. You can view the >> dependencies for it here: http://yorba.org/shotwell/install/, download >> the stable source for it here: >> http://yorba.org/download/shotwell/0.8/shotwell-0.8.1.tar.bz2 , and view >> a little more information here on exiv and gexiv2, both of which are >> required. >> >> If you want to live on the bleeding edge of things you can use a guide >> contributed from one of Shotwells users, Bengt Thuree, located here: >> http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/HowToBuildInDebianFromSource >> >> <http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/HowToBuildInDebianFromSource> >> >> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Gary Lawrence Murphy >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> that's what I thought I had: >>> >>> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yorba/ppa >>> sudo apt-get update >>> sudo aptitude safe-upgrade >>> >>> ah I see my error now: I'm not on maverick on this machine, I'm on lucid: >>> >>> $ sudo aptitude show shotwell >>> Package: shotwell >>> New: yes >>> State: installed >>> Automatically installed: no >>> Version: 0.7.2-1~lucid1 >>> Priority: optional >>> Section: gnome >>> Maintainer: Jim Nelson <[email protected]> >>> >>> hey .... that's YOU! :) Ok, I guess I'm awaiting a backport then :) or >>> awaiting 11.04, which ever comes first. thanks for the tip. >>> >>> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Jim Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> > There was a lot of work between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0 dealing with fixing >>> > duplicate detection. I can't speak for an 0.8.1 deb, but the Yorba PPA >>> has >>> > the latest and greatest for Maverick: >>> > >>> > https://launchpad.net/~yorba/+archive/ppa >>> > >>> > -- Jim >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Gary Lawrence Murphy < >>> [email protected]>wrote: >>> > >>> >> sure thing: >>> >> >>> >> http://img839.imageshack.us/i/shotwelldups.jpg/ >>> >> >>> >> The version I have was downloaded just this morning from the website, >>> but >>> >> it is only 0.7.2; is there a .deb for 0.8.x anywhere? (if possible I'd >>> >> rather stay with the ppa etc as it saves having to restructure things >>> >> further down the road when the distro catches up) >>> >> >>> >> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Jim Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >> >>> >>> Hi Gary, >>> >>> >>> >>> The screenshot didn't come through the mailing list. Can you post a >>> link >>> >>> to it perhaps? >>> >>> >>> >>> Also, what version of Shotwell are you running? We had some bugs in >>> the >>> >>> duplicate detection that were fixed in 0.8.0. (The current version >>> is >>> >>> 0.8.1.) >>> >>> >>> >>> -- Jim >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Gary Lawrence Murphy < >>> >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> I have only just installed shotwell from the website into Ubuntu >>> 10.04 >>> >>>> >>> >>>> The attached screenshot pretty much captures it: the test for >>> duplicate >>> >>>> photos appears to be far too naive as we can see the dialog >>> rejecting >>> >>>> images >>> >>>> as duplicates where in the sidebar the images are clearly unique >>> >>>> >>> >>>> or am I merely misunderstanding the meaning of 'duplicate'? the >>> dialog >>> >>>> also >>> >>>> might want to say what files it believes are the originals. >>> >>>> >>> >>>> -- >>> >>>> *Have Blog, Will Travel: blog.teledyn.com* >>> >>>> *A Serviceable Substitute: post.teledyn.com* >>> >>>> >>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>>> Shotwell mailing list >>> >>>> [email protected] >>> >>>> http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell >>> >>>> >>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> -- >>> >> *Have Blog, Will Travel: blog.teledyn.com* >>> >> *A Serviceable Substitute: post.teledyn.com* >>> >> >>> >> >>> > >>> >>> >>> -- >>> *Have Blog, Will Travel: blog.teledyn.com* >>> *A Serviceable Substitute: post.teledyn.com* >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Shotwell mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell >>> >> >> > > > -- > *Have Blog, Will Travel: blog.teledyn.com* > *A Serviceable Substitute: post.teledyn.com* > > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
