I was hoping to submit a bug report for Mepis 8.5 RC2 but Mepis forums appear to be down so I'm posting here.
The gPodder which downloads from the repositories (0.12.10) is outdated by a few years. It has a bug which causes it to name files and folders in MD5 hash. A solution to the problem would be to add a couple specific stable debian testing packages to the repository to allow for the newer version of gPodder 2.3 to be installed. It appears to be a stable solution, I've tested it on both Mepis 8.0 and Mepis 8.5 RC2 (8.4.99) successfully.
If anyone is interested here are some simple instructions to test it yourself. I wonder if it would be possible for Mepis 8.5 to make additions to the repositories to include the ability to install the more stable current version?
gPodder 2.3 install instructions for Mepis 8.5 RC3 and presumably 8.5 Final
Download these debian packages
Download Page for python-central_0.6.14+nmu2_all.deb
http://packages.debian.org/zh-tw/sid...ntral/download
Download Page for python-mygpoclient_1.0-1_all.deb
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/a...lient/download
Download Page for gpodder_2.3-1_all.deb
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/all/gpodder/download
open konsole
$su
password (enter root password)
#dpkg -i (drag and drop) gpodder_2.3-1_all.deb
#dpkg -i (drag and drop) python-mygpoclient_1.0-1_all.deb
#dpkg -i (drag and drop) python-central_0.6.14+nmu2_all.deb
#apt-get -f install (do for any package that has unmet dependancies
gPodder 2.3 install instructions for Mepis 8
Download these debian packages
Download Page for python-central_0.6.14+nmu2_all.deb
http://packages.debian.org/zh-tw/sid...ntral/download
Download Page for python-mygpoclient_1.0-1_all.deb
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/a...lient/download
Download Page for python-support_1.0.7_all.deb
http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/p...pport/download
Download Page for gpodder_2.3-1_all.deb
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/all/gpodder/download
open konsole
$su
password (enter root password)
#dpkg -i (drag and drop) gpodder_2.3-1_all.deb
#dpkg -i (drag and drop) python-mygpoclient_1.0-1_all.deb
#dpkg -i (drag and drop) python-support_1.0.7_all.deb
#dpkg -i (drag and drop) python-central_0.6.14+nmu2_all.deb
#apt-get -f install (do for any package that has unmet dependancies)
