On Thu, 2015-12-03 at 13:26 -0500, Mark Foley wrote: > > As others have said, it appears that 3.10 on Ubuntu 14.04 is broken in > > various ways (it's to do with the Ubuntu packaging - 3.10 was fine on > > other systems). 3.10 is also very old now and unsupported. > > So, your recommendation? Should I get the latest stable release? I > assume that would be 3.18.2 from > https://download.gnome.org/sources/evolution/3.18/. Or do you think > that wouldn't work on Ubuntu. Any idea why the Ubuntu folks have not > kept this updated?
Ubuntu is no different than any other distribution: Red Hat, Fedora, SuSE, etc. If you use a distribution release which is going on 2 years old, then the software versions in that release will be old and not supported upstream. Release-based distributions don't put newer versions of software in already-published releases. This is quadruply-true of Evolution which is NOT a stand-alone application like Firefox etc.: it's an integrated component of the GNOME desktop. If you want a newer version of Evolution you'll have to upgrade to a newer version of the entire GNOME desktop. If you want a newer version of Evolution, then simply upgrade your version of Ubuntu. If you switch to the current Ubuntu 15.10 release (I personally prefer the Ubuntu GNOME version, not native Ubuntu, but whatever) then you'll get Evolution 3.16.5 which is not the latest but is much closer. [1] There are exceptions, usu _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
