[Gpe-list] Maemo chinook (IT2008) packages available for testing

[Graham Cobb]

On Monday 19 November 2007 19:07:41 David Hautbois wrote:
> But I've some problems to configure libgpewidget-2.8+maemo+svn20071118-1
> in maemo 4 SDK :
> checking for GPEWIDGET... configure: error: Package requirements
> (gtk+-2.0 >= 2.4 glib-2.0 >= 2.6) were not met:
> No package 'gtk+-2.0' found
> No package 'glib-2.0' found
>
> These packages do not exist or are not named like this.
>
> Do You have some tips ?

Maybe you need to install glib and gtk by hand:

fakeroot apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev libglib2.0-dev

Actually, instead of downloading the tar file, expanding and building by hand, 
I would recommend using the debian tools to build an installable .deb file 
from the source package.

In general to build package XXX from source and install you do something like:

1) Add the correct deb-src line to /etc/apt/sources.list.  For chinook the 
best line to add is:

deb-src http://www.cobb.uk.net/apt/ chinook daily

Then do: apt-get update

2) Download the source package:

apt-get source XXX

3) Install the build dependencies:

apt-get build-dep XXX

4) Build from the source package:

cd into the directory apt-get source created
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc

5) Install the resulting .deb:

dpkg -i ../<packagefile>.deb

Don't forget that for libraries you need to install both the libXXX and the 
libXXX-dev package in order to build the components that use the libraries.

If you intend to rebuild often (for example you are tracking the GPE SVN) I 
would recommend using MUD.  But don't bother if you just want to build once.

Graham