gtkpod on ubuntu

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 06:53:58PM -0500, JoeHill wrote:
> ...maybe Jamon can shed some light on this. Thought I would test this on my
> Ubuntu system and it's kinda weird. I did and apt-get install gtkpod, but it
> did not pull down libgpod3 automatically, even though the version on the PPA I
> linked to says it depends on libgpod3 (has to if it supports new Classic/Nano
> iPods).
> 
> I know this PPA is enabled, because if I specifically do an apt-get install
> libgpod3, it works fine. When I do the same for gtkpod, it gets the old
> version, not the one I want. The one thing I notice is that the version from
> ubuntu.com is 0.99.10-2, the version I want is 0.99.10-2~ppa1.

~ is used in the version number of experimental packages, and the system
will never automatically install one.  You have to explicitly ask for it
to get it.

Try: apt-get install gtkpod=0.99.10-2~ppa1

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