F-Spot developers released a new version of their photo management software. Here you can read the release note. I made a package for Ubuntu Hardy and Ubuntu Intrepid. Both are available on my PPA on Launchpad. Note that there could be some issues with this build: please refer any problem you find. It is sufficient writing a comment on this blog.

Quick instructions for Hardy

If you are using Hardy, add the following repositories to your sources (you can either use Synaptic or edit your /etc/apt/sources.list):

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/michelinux/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/michelinux/ubuntu hardy main

On Hardy you will also need a more updated version of GTK-Sharp, which you will find in the same repository. So if you are using the standard apt way there are no problems, but if you prefer to download the single deb file remember to download the GTK-Sharp deb file as well.

Quick instructions for Intrepid

f you are using Intrepid, add the following repositories to your sources:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/michelinux/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/michelinux/ubuntu intrepid main

It is not necessary add the deb-src repository: add it only if you are planning to play with sources.

Know Issues

This package won’t compile on amd64. Still investigating. This is the build log, if you have any idea or suggestion please let me know (just leave a comment to this post). Also, if you have a 64bit machine (Intel or AMD it’s pretty much the same) youi could try to download the upstream source of F-Spot and trying to compile it on your Ubuntu box.

This has been solved with the new upstream version 0.5.0.1. Please upgrade your installation by running

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade