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Upgrading Shotwell
Q I tried to apply Nick Peers’ piece on Shotwell to upgrade my version of it. I have Debian 8 Mint on a 32-bit machine. Shotwell is version 0.20.1-1 and I have been unable to upgrade as the PPA is not recognised in Debian.
Am I stuck on 0.20.1-1 unless Debian adds a later version, I buy modern 64-bit kit or change to Mint or Ubuntu? It has to be said that Shotwell 0.20.1-1 works fine for me, but it’s not the latest and now that Peers has told me…!
John Welford
A Debian 8 (Jessie) is the old, stable version of Debian. It will only receive updates to handle security issues and bugs, not version bumps.
That leaves two options: installing from a PPA or from source. The PPA is for Ubuntu, which is why it will not add in Debian. You could try downloading the individual .deb files to your computer and then installing them with dpkg, for example, like this:
$ dpkg -i shotwell.x.y.z_i386.deb
However, this may have unexpected side effects when doing it on a, and packages installed, then download the latest sources, currently 0.30.1, from . Unpack the archive and build it with these commands, run from a terminal in the directory containing the downloaded file:
