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Javier Rivera
Asked: 2011-09-29 10:14:59 +0800 CST

How can I install Glade 3.08?

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Oneric comes with Glade 3.10 by default, and I need to install the older version. Is there any PPA, or some nice way to install it short of download the natty deb, pray that it works and pin it in synaptic?.

Some background: Glade 3.10 has dropped support of Gtk2.GUIs developed with Glade 3.10 don't work on older Linux distros and they can't be used with pygtk. I'm need my gtk programs to support 10.04.

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  1. Best Answer

    For 11.10

    The version packaged for 10.04 seems to work in oneric (11.10). You can use it to install the older Glade:

    1. Download the .deb file, you can find it here, please click on your architecture.

    2. Install the new deb by double-clicking on it.

    3. Pin it to avoid it from updating.

    You need to do it from the command line, pinning it from synaptic as I wrote in a comment will only work while updating in synaptic (as I learned today):

    echo "glade hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections

    Note that this approach is not very good: you will not receive security updates to glade (it doesn't look like a risky package) and if some package depends on the new glade version it's not going to be upgraded/installed.

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