Building latest Transmission 2.42...

[topolinik]

Hi, this is my first post here but I have used transmission for long time now and I really appreciate it since it is simple and light but does well what I want it to do.
Now I'm about to build latest 2.42 by myself on my ubuntu lucid lynx, and I want the gtk+ UI but... gtk+ isn't recent enough!! Synaptic reports I have installed gtk+2.20.1 when transmission needs gtk+ >= 2.22.0
And, apart from gtk+ itself, there's more:
glib-2.0 >= 2.28.0 but I have version 2.24.1
gio-2.0 >= 2.26.0 but I have version 2.24.1
gmodule-2.0 >= 2.28.0 but I have version 2.24.1
gthread-2.0 >= 2.28.0 but I have version 2.24.1
Now, if I really want to build transmission-2.42 I have to update lots of libraries, and they are such of important libraries themselves, being used by almost every GUI-based application. On the other side, my ubuntu release is a LTS because I also don't want to change my every-day system twice an year. This means the next update for all these libraries will be available when the next LTS release will see the light.
Now, the question. Which transmission version can be installed if I want to stay with gtk-2.20.1 ?

[gunzip]

Now, the question. Which transmission version can be installed if I want to stay with gtk-2.20.1 ?

i believe TR 2.33 is highest, based on https://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/Changes

btw, what does

$ sudo apt-cache policy transmission-gtk

say about version available from repos.

[topolinik]

$ sudo apt-cache policy transmission-gtk

transmission-gtk:
Installato: 1.93-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
Candidato: 1.93-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
Tabella versione:
*** 1.93-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 0
500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1.92-0ubuntu2 0
500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages

(I'm actually with version 1.93)

[webaake]

Or you could use this repo;

https://launchpad.net/~euroford/+archiv ... ld/2985357

I just manually fetched the debs and installed with dpkg -i. Seems ok.
Compiling version 2.42 on Lucid seemed undoable - dependency hell - as usual on Ubuntu.