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How do I install the latest version of Evolution on Ubuntu 14.04 ?

I have tried 

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fta/gnome3  
sudo apt-get update  
sudo apt-get install evolution

This installs Evolution 3.10.4

This works fine but I want a later version that supports google tasks

Steve Roome
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The instructions here:

sudo apt-get remove evolution
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install evolution

are for 15.04 (vivid) (and 14.10 (utopic)) - no packages are available in the PPA for 14.04 etc, so the package manager falls back on the version provided in the ubuntu repos: enter image description here

The problem is that Gnome programs generally is they depend on other parts of Gnome to work properly - since 14.04 uses Gnome 3.10 as a base version it becomes difficult to install some Gnome programs for 3.8, 3.12, 3.16 etc as they may break as they don't have the right libraries etc available (unless patched) - and trying to install those libraries which in turn probably will break Unity and other Gnome apps.... see dependency hell.

You can get Evolution 3.16 in 15.10 Wily, and if you wait two weeks you can get 3.18 in 16.04 (also a LTS like 14.04, but still in beta currently).

If you really want to, you can try installing the packages for 14.10 (may break stuff, I recommend backing up Evolution's data before doing it) by adding the a different entry for the PPA:

sudo apt-get remove evolution
sudo add-apt-repository 'deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/fta/gnome3/ubuntu utopic main'
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install evolution

This will try and install the packages for 14.10 , which might work...

Wilf
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  • I tried this and got "Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming." – Steve Roome Apr 10 '16 at 19:25
  • Could you post the full error (you can use https://paste.ubuntu.com/), and which command were you running. Its not working either because it can't find other packages it needs to install (dependencies), or because you need to remove the old PPA first – Wilf Apr 10 '16 at 19:33
  • I have already removed the new PPA and re-installed Evolution 3.10.4 If I only have to wait two weeks for a resolution there does not seem much point in pursuing this furthur. However if the results would help others I will have another go – Steve Roome Apr 11 '16 at 09:45