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Is it reasonable to install a current version of Evolution (say 3.16.1) on Ubuntu 14.04? I added the recommended 'ppa:fta/gnome3', but I'm still only offered 3.10.4 from the Ubuntu archive. It seems the ppa currently only supports Vivid and Utopic. I downloaded the tar for 3.16.1, however building this on Trusty seems onerous. I run './configure', read the failure message, google for the package containing the failed dependency, install the package, and repeat. I've one-by-one installed several packages already and don't feel like the end is in site. Is there a better way to accomplish this? It looks like at one time the ppa offered '3.13.7-fta1.2~trusty'. Is there a way for me to get that package? Or was it removed because it didn't work?

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  • You can get a lot (probably all) of dependencies by sudo apt-get build-dep evolution. – muru Apr 25 '15 at 04:12
  • E: Unable to find a source package for evolution -- Does this imply I have some configuration error? – proximous Apr 25 '15 at 13:29
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    Uncomment all lines starting with deb-src in /etc/apt/sources.list and run sudo apt-get update and continue with apt-get build-dep as suggested. – Kalle Richter Apr 25 '15 at 15:28
  • That gets me further, however now I'm stuck with No package 'libedataserverui-1.2' found...is this a loosing battle? I can't find any package that contains it, not to mention the other version issues like Requested 'camel-1.2 >= 3.16.1' but version of camel is 3.10.4 Should I expect to be able to succeed without heroic effort? – proximous Apr 25 '15 at 20:07
  • @proximous you'll probably want to try after removing the PPA. It seems to be causing problems. – muru Apr 25 '15 at 21:00
  • removed the ppa and did an update. Same issue. To be clear, the first issue is checking for EVOLUTION_DATA_SERVER... no. Then I get the errors like wrong version of camel, libebook, libecal, libedataserver, libebackend, and no package libedataserverui. Do I need to add a ppa to get newer versions of these items and the missing libedataserverui? – proximous Apr 25 '15 at 21:43

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