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Re: How to install Upp under Ubuntu 12.04 from PPA [message #41645 is a reply to message #41637]

Tue, 07 January 2014 16:32

ManfredHerr
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Registered: February 2013
Location: Germany

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If you're interested in my story, here it comes:
The UPP installation I was working with came from UBUNTU Software Center, i.e. the "stable" release. From time to time I experienced crashes of theide and after the third of January, Ctrl + F2 crashed theide reproduceable. So I used the Sofware Centre to uninstall and reinstall UPP. The crash remained. I fetched the debug symbols and spotted the error. I posted a message to the forum for theide, no reply. My next decision was to switch to upp-nightly, made a app-get remove upp added the repository for upp-nightly, made a update and install. The theide comming up after that was the one from the stable release. When asking in the menu for updates available the answer was positive. I got a huge list of modules to change and spent an hour or so to click all to the select option on the right. Finally, Synchronize produced a state that was not usable at all anymore. So I used once more apt-get to remove the UPP package and autoclean. Additionally, I deleted all of the upp sources in my personal space and /usr/share/upp. The same with /usr/bin/theide. Then I tried a new attempt of installation from the upp-nightly repository. The package was downloaded and stored in /usr/share/upp but no theide anymore. Only after 'apt-get install theide' I got my executable back to complete the steps mentioned.
Happy to have a new environment I tried Ctrl+F2 with my app and hey, it worked! But the sad thing was to notice after my first code change, my app didn't compile anymore due to rearrangements in the assemblies. It wasn't this hard to find it. But one question remains: If the "stable" release, that every newcomer tries first, ist obsolete now and moreover is incompatible then why not take it down?

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