[SOLVED] Is it advisable to use a flatpack to upgrade a program?

tmick · 05-05-2023, 01:06 PM

Hi All,
I'm considering using Flatpack to get the latest version of Evolution. I'm on Testing (Bookworm with MATE as a DE) with 3.46.4-1 and the Flatpack is 3,48 What's gonna break?
Thanks for the advice in advance.

pan64 · 05-05-2023, 02:03 PM

do you really need 3.48? in that case use that. Theoretically it will not break anything.

tmick · 05-05-2023, 03:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pan64

do you really need 3.48?

Not sure yet, my Tiger reports aren't displaying but my log files will and they're much longer (Although I doubt either is close to 1 MB) But when I report an issue to the evolution list the first suggestion is upgrade so I figured I'd upgrade and see if it fixes the issue before I report it.
GMAIL works fine it's just local mail that's stuck on stupid. I'm just trying not to break Debian is all.

remmilou · 05-06-2023, 01:53 PM

You can also get the source (3.48.0) at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution
And might make a Debian package before installing.