Re: v. 2.11 for new users [WAS: Re: confused about transposing from treble clef to bass clef]

[Joseph Wakeling]

Jonathan Kulp wrote:
> I imagine that the reason many people still start out with 2.10.33 (on
> Linux at least) is because 2.10.33 is the version in the repositories or
> is even pre-installed in the distro (e.g. Ubuntu Studio).  For these
> cases there should perhaps be a warning about correct un-installation of
> the old version through the distro's package manager before trying to
> install the new version.  I recall once having troubles when I didn't
> uninstall the old version properly.  Hopefully the repository managers
> will accept the 2.12 into the repos soon after its release.

Is there anybody in the community who is familiar with the Launchpad PPA
system?  Putting up 2.12 .deb files there could be a way to ease the
transition for Ubuntu/Debian users at least, until the new stable
version has made its way into the regular disto repositories.