install poedit 1.5+ in Ubuntu 12.04

Question

I am running Ubuntu 12.04 which comes with poedit 1.4.6. Is there any way to install poedit 1.5+ without compiling it from source?

update: I'd rather not upgrade to 13.04, if at all possible

Answer 1

I use ubuntu 13.04, and I see poedit 1.5 can be installed simply by

$ sudo apt-get install poedit

ruuning this command

$ sudo apt-cache show poedit | grep "Version"

gives me the following result

Version: 1.5.4-1

Suggestion should be simply install by source, or upgrade.

Answer 2

There is a backport (PPA) for poedit available for Precise (12.04) available from https://launchpad.net/~schaumkeks/+archive/ppa/+sourcepub/2991913/+listing-archive-extra

You can download the .deb file here:

https://launchpad.net/~schaumkeks/+archive/ppa/+files/poedit_1.5.4-1~ubuntu12.04.1~ppa1_i386.deb

If you are looking for the 64-bit version, you can download it here:

https://launchpad.net/~schaumkeks/+archive/ppa/+files/poedit_1.5.4-1~ubuntu12.04.1~ppa1_amd64.deb

From a terminal (Ctrl-Alt-t), navigate to your download folder and issue the command sudo dpkg -i poedit-dbg_1.5.4-1~ubuntu12.04.1~ppa1_i386.deb

or, to install the 64-bit version, run the following command: sudo dpkg -i poedit_1.5.4-1~ubuntu12.04.1~ppa1_amd64.deb

• What are PPAs and how do I use them?
• Are PPA's safe to add to my system and what are some "red flags" to watch out for?

Answer 3

I know the question is a bit old, but I tried what @Kevin Bowen suggests and couldn't find the files.

I added this PPA https://launchpad.net/~schaumkeks/+archive/ppa, updated apt sources but still the installed version is ~1.4.

I downloaded the binary packages from packages in https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poedit (poedit-dbg_1.5.4-1_i386.deb and poedit_1.5.4-1_i386.deb, BUT, poedit dependes on libdb5.1++, which in my case wasn't installed. Just installed it from the repos and then installed poedit_1.5.4-1_i386.deb and poedit-dbg_1.5.4-1_i386.deb, in that order.

So, it isn't very hard, open your command line and:

wget https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/poedit-dbg_1.5.4-1_i386.deb
wget https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/poedit_1.5.4-1_i386.deb
sudo apt-get install libdb5.1++
sudo dpkg -i poedit_1.5.4-1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i poedit-dbg_1.5.4-1_i386.deb

The main reason I had to do this is because version < 1.4 uses the X-Lanauge header instead of the Language header, which uses the gettext binary compile .po files.

Hope that helps.