Fwd: gsmartcontrol for Kubuntu 8.04

[Clay Weber]

On Monday, November 22, 2010 03:09:06 pm Jim MacLeod wrote:
> On Monday 22 November 2010 19:52:01 ray burke wrote:
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: ray burke <rayburke30 at gmail.com>
> > Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:42:58 +1100
> > Subject: gsmartcontrol for Kubuntu 8.04
> > To: "\"Kubuntu help support\"kubuntu-users mail support"
> > <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> > 
> > can anyone help
> > 
> > I have downloaded gsmartcontrol deb app and tried to install on my k
> > 8.04 but missing dependency  libcairomm-1.01, after going thru
> > google found itr and tried to install but again dependency missing, so
> > looked in the linux forum and found a post about gsmartcontrol,
> > saying missing libcairomm, but was stated from help from
> > someone that it needed debian etch, but dont know wat this means, I nned
> > advise?
> 
> Using 10.10 and libcairomm-1.01 is listed as available if installing
> gsmartcontrol. Obviously dependency must have been sorted in either
> 8.10/9.04/9.10/10.4 or even 10.10, just a case of tracking it down.
> 
> > ray
> 
> Jim

gsmartcontrol was never available in Ubuntu prior to Karmic, so there probably 
will be numerous file version incompatibilities trying to install it in Hardy 
as it was compiled against newer libraries than what was available in 8.04.

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas?name_filter=gsmartcontrol
lists some packages for it in a couple of PPA repositories repackaged 
specifically for Hardy.

I recommend downloading and *manually* installing the hardy package from here:
https://launchpad.net/~dnjl/+archive/ppa/+files/gsmartcontrol_0.8.4-2%7Ednjl0_i386.deb
here's a tinyurl for it if the link is too long:
http://tinyurl.com/gsmartcontrol-for-hardy

This package is the newest version packaged, and is a simple backport from 
Karmic, meaning it was simply re-compiled specifically for hardy more or less 
by just changing the dependencies as needed for it to build.

clay

clay