Re: [Monotone-devel] Ubuntu 6.06

[Nathaniel Smith]

A simpler solution than all this might be to just use one of the
standalone binaries from the web site:
  http://monotone.ca/downloads/0.36/mtn-0.36-linux-x86.bz2
  http://monotone.ca/downloads/0.36/mtn-0.36-linux_2.6-static.bz2
Just uncompress, rename to "mtn", make executable, and put somewhere
in your path, and they should work.

(Why do we have two of these now?  I can't tell which one I would
need or what the real difference is; do we expect that users can?  It
would be better to just provide whichever single binary works on the
greatest variety of possible systems...)

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 01:01:39PM +0200, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> On Aug 29, 2007, at 12:48 PM, Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> 
> >dtempw <address@hidden> writes:
> >>Hi Ludovic
> >>
> >>Thanks for getting back to me. As you can see in the attached
> >>screenshot, Ubuntu reports 0.33 as the latest version, I'd like to
> >>upgrade all my systems (MacOS, Windows and Linux) to 0.36, but Linux
> >>is holding me back.
> >
> >No, Linux is not holding you back.  What is holding you back is that
> >you are using a stable "long-term support" version of Ubuntu: this
> >means no package upgrades unless absolutely necessary (i.e. critical
> >bug fixes but not new features).  In fact, your Linux is also being
> >held back unless you've compiled and installed the latest version
> >(2.6.22.4) manually.
> >
> >If you absolutely must have the latest version, upgrade to Debian
> >unstable by editing your /etc/apt/sources.list to point at the Debian
> >repository instead of the Ubuntu ones.  Then, do "apt-get update;
> >apt-get dist-upgrade".  monotone 0.36-1 is in unstable but has not
> >migrated to testing yet, and is being blocked by test failures on some
> >architectures (this is intentional).
> 
> OR simply build monotone 0.36 yourself and install it in /usr/local.   
> No need to switch the whole system to unstable to get a more recent  
> version of a single package, specially if it is a tool that nothing  
> else relies on.
> 
> -- 
> Julio M. Merino Vidal <address@hidden>
> 
> 
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