gtkpod on ubuntu

[JoeHill]

Christopher Aitken wrote: 

> JoeHill wrote:
> > Lennart Sorensen wrote: 
> >
> >     
> >> On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 12:24:47PM -0500, Christopher Aitken wrote:
> >>       
> >>> So, I'll have to do,
> >>>
> >>> 'apt-get install gtkpod=0.99.10-2~ppa1'
> >>>
> >>> from time to time?  
> >>>         
> >> Well once you install a package with the ~ in the version, it should
> >> keep upgrading it automatically after that (unless a non experimental
> >> package with a higher version comes out and replaces it, then it will
> >> stick with the normal version again until told otherwise again).
> >>       
> >
> > The problem in the case of this gtkpod package is that it keeps wanting to
> > update the experimental package even though the version numbers appear (to
> > me) to be the same. On my Ubuntu system it shows an update from
> > 0.99.10-2~ppa1 to 0.99.10-2.  
> Wow - I'll bet if I said ok to that it would strip the 3rd gen nano 
> (video) functionality that we worked so hard to get on my system.

Yep, though it would be a pretty quick fix to get it working again. It's just
kind of a pain to have to watch out for that every time you do an update. Of
course, you could just never run the update applet... ;)

-- 
JoeHill
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