WARNINGS!

[Jack Bowling]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 10:03:28PM -0400, Maurice Murphy wrote:

Hi, Maurice. Not sure if you know this, but apt can build a package for
you using build-dep. There is a short summary of the process here:

http://jucato.wordpress.com/2006/09/04/ubuntu-classroom-basic-compiling/

Basically, you make sure the # are removed from the deb-src lines in
your /etc/apt/sources.list and then issue:

sudo apt-get build-dep glade3

and wait for that to finish. And then you issue:

sudo apt-get -b source glade3

The first command figures out all the dependencies and downloads them to
the directory from where you issued the command (might be an idea to
make yourself a glade3 directory and do it from there). The second goes
to the just-downloaded source and compiles a deb package out of the
contents. You then install the package by issuing:

sudo dpkg -i glade3

or whatever the pkg ends up being called.

There is a lot of power in the apt/dpkg system.

Jack


> Hi Andrew,
> 
> Thanks.  My concern was that others might remove Glade2 without 
> realizing that many of their apps. would also be removed at the same 
> time.  Maybe some sort of warning might be appropriate to save others 
> from the same fate as me, the proverbial dummy!
> 
> On the question of dependencies, Glade2 worked very nicely including the 
> build function.  But when it came time to do an autogen.sh, many 
> dependencies were not found.  I tried very hard for a couple of days to 
> install these, but whatever I did, did not satisfy autogen.sh, 
> particularly libgnomeui-2.0, which, in turn, needed many other 
> dependencies to relieve the problem.  Hence, I abandoned Glade2.  A pity 
> really because it seemed to be a pretty good interface builder.  Thanks 
> again for your response.  Maurice
> 
> Andrew Hunter wrote:
> > On Thursday 07 June 2007 07:56:22 Maurice Murphy wrote:
> >   
> >> During my recent escapades with Glade and Qt3, I ran into some
> >> disturbing outcomes that perhaps deserve some preventive action.
> >>
> >> When I attempted to remove Glade2 in anticipation of installing Glade3,
> >> Synaptic cleverly attempted to remove every app. that uses Glade2.
> >> Fortunately, I was watching the process.  Synaptic removed Alacarte,
> >> Ekiga and Evolution before I stopped the whole process by forceably
> >> shutting down my box.
> >>
> >> I had a similar experience when removing Qt3 in anticipation of
> >> installing Qt4.  The only app., however, that appeared to have been
> >> removed in this case was Skype.
> >>
> >> Should I file a bug report?
> >>     
> >
> > No.
> >
> > Unlike in windows, GTK and QT can co-habitate on the same machine regardless 
> > of version. Things will not be 100% backwards compatable, it is up the the 
> > app devs to migrate to the new toolkit. Until then, you still need to the 
> > toolkit to run the applications.
> >
> > As such, the package system will take care of replacing any piece of software 
> > with a newer version and any new dependacies.
> >
> >   
> >> Maurice
> >> --
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> >>     
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