Update Tomboy version in Ubuntu

[Josep M. Fontana]

Probably this should be marked as OT as it pertains more to questions
about Ubuntu (from a newby) than to questions about Tomboy itself but
here it goes in case someone can help me.

I checked my current version of Tomboy and I see it is still 0.14.0. I'd
like to update it to the most recent stable version since I'd like to
take advantage of some of the improvements. Going through Synaptic or
doing apt-get update doesn't seem to help. I guess I could simply
download a binary and manually install it but I would prefer not to do
that as I'm afraid that if I do that my installation might not be
recognized by the Ubuntu update manager and then I would miss all the
automatic updates (if there's any, which I'm starting to doubt). What is
your recommendation?

Thanks in advance.

Josep M.
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[Johannes Buchner]

On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:48:17 +0200
"Josep M. Fontana" <josepm.fontana@...> wrote:

> Probably this should be marked as OT as it pertains more to questions
> about Ubuntu (from a newby) than to questions about Tomboy itself
Maybe

> but
> here it goes in case someone can help me.
>
> I checked my current version of Tomboy and I see it is still 0.14.0.
> I'd like to update it to the most recent stable version since I'd
> like to take advantage of some of the improvements. Going through
> Synaptic or doing apt-get update doesn't seem to help.
The distribution always need time to test and repackage releases from
the maintainers.

> I guess I
> could simply download a binary and manually install it but I would
> prefer not to do that as I'm afraid that if I do that my installation
> might not be recognized by the Ubuntu update manager and then I would
> miss all the automatic updates (if there's any, which I'm starting to
> doubt).
That is true.

> What is your recommendation?
You can download and run the newest version of tomboy as a local
installation (so only in your home folder ~).

So after extracting, run in the folder
$ ./configure --prefix=/home/user/bin/tomboy/ --disable-scrollkeeper
$ make
$ make install
and it will be installed there.
However, it will not be integrated in the menus, you'll have to add a
shortcut.

Cheers,
Johannes

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[Sandy Armstrong]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Johannes Buchner<buchner.johannes@...> wrote:

> On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:48:17 +0200
> "Josep M. Fontana" <josepm.fontana@...> wrote:
>
>> Probably this should be marked as OT as it pertains more to questions
>> about Ubuntu (from a newby) than to questions about Tomboy itself
> Maybe
>
>> but
>> here it goes in case someone can help me.
>>
>> I checked my current version of Tomboy and I see it is still 0.14.0.
>> I'd like to update it to the most recent stable version since I'd
>> like to take advantage of some of the improvements. Going through
>> Synaptic or doing apt-get update doesn't seem to help.
> The distribution always need time to test and repackage releases from
> the maintainers.

The hold-up with Ubuntu is not lack of testing, but an ongoing
argument about whether or not Tomboy 0.14.2 breaks their Stable
Release Update policy.  I am hoping we will have a resolution on this
after the Ubuntu folks return from their summit in Dublin.  I
apologize for the ridiculous delay with this.  I am as surprised and
frustrated with it as you are.  It has not been a problem in the past.

>> I guess I
>> could simply download a binary and manually install it but I would
>> prefer not to do that as I'm afraid that if I do that my installation
>> might not be recognized by the Ubuntu update manager and then I would
>> miss all the automatic updates (if there's any, which I'm starting to
>> doubt).
> That is true.
>
>> What is your recommendation?
> You can download and run the newest version of tomboy as a local
> installation (so only in your home folder ~).
>
> So after extracting, run in the folder
> $ ./configure --prefix=/home/user/bin/tomboy/ --disable-scrollkeeper
> $ make
> $ make install
> and it will be installed there.
> However, it will not be integrated in the menus, you'll have to add a
> shortcut.

I would still recommend looking for a deb or a PPA before installing
from source.  Installing from source is not hard, as you can see, but
it require you to install a lot of developer dependencies that you
might not otherwise need.

Looks like you can get a binary of 0.14.2 here, after a quick google:
https://launchpad.net/~janvitus/+archive/ppa

Of course, not being an Ubuntu user, I have not tried it.

Sandy
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[Josep M. Fontana]

Thanks Johannes and Sandy for you help. Hopefully problems with the
Ubuntu developers will get sorted out soon.

JM
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[Sandy Armstrong]

This might help, apparently somebody has a PPA with a newer Tomboy for
Jaunty users.  I'm on openSUSE so I haven't tried and don't know what
version the PPA has.  Anyone have feedback on this?

Add this to to your /etc/apt/sources.list:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
#add this at the end (including the jaunty main)
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/brywilharris/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
#close and update
#System->Administration->Update Manager
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On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Josep M. Fontana <josepm.fontana@...> wrote:
> Thanks Johannes and Sandy for you help. Hopefully problems with the Ubuntu
> developers will get sorted out soon.
>
> JM
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[Alan Pope-2]

2009/9/9 Sandy Armstrong <sanfordarmstrong@...>:
> This might help, apparently somebody has a PPA with a newer Tomboy for
> Jaunty users.  I'm on openSUSE so I haven't tried and don't know what
> version the PPA has.  Anyone have feedback on this?

If you browse the ppa you'll find:-

http://ppa.launchpad.net/brywilharris/ppa/ubuntu/pool/main/t/tomboy/

Which currently contains:-

[ ] tomboy_0.14.0-0ubuntu1-1bh.diff.gz 15-Apr-2009 14:20 27K
[ ] tomboy_0.14.0-0ubuntu1-1bh.dsc 15-Apr-2009 14:20 1.7K
[ ] tomboy_0.14.0-0ubuntu1-1bh_amd64.deb 15-Apr-2009 15:00 4.3M
[ ] tomboy_0.14.0-0ubuntu1-1bh_i386.deb 15-Apr-2009 14:40 4.3M
[ ] tomboy_0.14.0-0ubuntu1-1bh_lpia.deb 15-Apr-2009 15:00 4.3M
[ ] tomboy_0.14.0-0ubuntu1.orig.tar.gz 15-Apr-2009 14:20 5.3M

So sadly not updated.

If I get some time later I'll put 0.14.2 in my ppa.

Cheers,
Al.
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[Sandy Armstrong]

Oh...I misunderstood him, then.  He is patching 0.14.0 for one
specific bug (the FUSE module detection thing).

Let me know how things go with your PPA.  :-)

Sandy

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Alan Pope <alan@...> wrote:

> 2009/9/9 Sandy Armstrong <sanfordarmstrong@...>:
>> This might help, apparently somebody has a PPA with a newer Tomboy for
>> Jaunty users.  I'm on openSUSE so I haven't tried and don't know what
>> version the PPA has.  Anyone have feedback on this?
>
> If you browse the ppa you'll find:-
>
> http://ppa.launchpad.net/brywilharris/ppa/ubuntu/pool/main/t/tomboy/
>
> Which currently contains:-
>
> [ ]     tomboy_0.14.0-0ubuntu1-1bh.diff.gz      15-Apr-2009 14:20        27K
> [ ]     tomboy_0.14.0-0ubuntu1-1bh.dsc  15-Apr-2009 14:20       1.7K
> [ ]     tomboy_0.14.0-0ubuntu1-1bh_amd64.deb    15-Apr-2009 15:00       4.3M
> [ ]     tomboy_0.14.0-0ubuntu1-1bh_i386.deb     15-Apr-2009 14:40       4.3M
> [ ]     tomboy_0.14.0-0ubuntu1-1bh_lpia.deb     15-Apr-2009 15:00       4.3M
> [ ]     tomboy_0.14.0-0ubuntu1.orig.tar.gz      15-Apr-2009 14:20       5.3M
>
> So sadly not updated.
>
> If I get some time later I'll put 0.14.2 in my ppa.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
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[Alan Pope-2]

2009/9/9 Sandy Armstrong <sanfordarmstrong@...>:
> Oh...I misunderstood him, then.  He is patching 0.14.0 for one
> specific bug (the FUSE module detection thing).
>
> Let me know how things go with your PPA.  :-)
>

Done. Launchpad accepted the package for my PPA. As I write, launchpad
is still building it, so give it a few minutes (or maybe a bit more
given the current workload).

https://launchpad.net/~popey/+archive/tomboy

I created a separate PPA for Tomboy so anyone using it won't get any
other packages I play with. Note, I am by no means a developer, I just
followed the documentation for doing this. It builds fine on my
machine, and assuming it builds okay on launchpad then all you need do
is:-

System -> Administration -> Software Sources -> Other Software -> Add
-> Paste in the line below.

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/popey/tomboy/ubuntu jaunty main

Ok and close the window. You should then be prompted for a software
update at some point to take you to 0.14.2. Might be wise to backup
your Tomboy folder first though just in case ;)

I can't guarantee I'll be on top of this, so if 0.14.3 arrives it wont
necessarily be in there immediately, but Sandy if you have an announce
list, add me to it and I'll try to make sure I update ASAP. Of course
once it gets into Jaunty proper repos this becomes redundant.

Cheers,
Al.
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[Alan Pope-2]

2009/9/9 Alan Pope <alan@...>:
> I can't guarantee I'll be on top of this, so if 0.14.3 arrives it wont
> necessarily be in there immediately, but Sandy if you have an announce
> list, add me to it and I'll try to make sure I update ASAP. Of course
> once it gets into Jaunty proper repos this becomes redundant.
>

Oops. I failed to notice 0.14.3 _is_ out. Will update the PPA now.

Cheers,
Al.
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