Re: Compiling 2.2.6 on Ubuntu

[Misu Moldovan <dumol home ro>]

Steffen Klemer wrote:
> Am 2005.01.13 23:13 schrieb(en) Pawel Salek:
>
> > On 01/13/2005 03:22:09 AM, Syv Ritch wrote:
> >
> > > I am trying to install 2.2.6 on Debian Ubuntu. I get the followng
> > > error
> > > message:
> > >
> > > > ... Package libgnome-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search
> > > path.
> > > > Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libgnome-2.0.pc'
> > > > to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> > > > No package 'libgnome-2.0' found
> > >
> > > I don't have libgnome-2.0 but I do have libgnome2-0.
> >
> >
> > As it was mentioned earlier, you probably can use debian package. If 
> > you  actually prefer to compile it, you will need libgnome2-0-dev (or  
> > similar) and several other *development* packages.
>
>
> Add
>
> deb-src ftp://ftp.ro.debian.org/debian/ sid main non-free contrib
> deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US sid/non-US main contrib  
> non-free
>
> to /etc/apt/sources.list (change the ro to your countrycode for a local  
> mirror ;)
>
> After that a
>
> apt-get build-dep balsa
>
> should install all compile-time depencies.
> After that you can try to compile a tarball or cvs.
>
> > Pawel
>
>
> cu
> /Steffen


Indeed, this is the recommended way of doing it. If fact, this is how I 
compiled debs of Galeon and Mplayer (not trivial) for my Ubuntu 
installation at work. Unfortunately it didn't work for Balsa. Don't 
remeber exactly why... Circular dependencies? Different package names in 
Ubuntu? Something definetely didn't work as with Galeon and Mplayer.

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Misu