Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee from Intrepid repository not up to date

[Max Battcher <me worldmaker net>]

On 1/23/2010 14:04, bornagainpenguin wrote:
> Could you please point me towards the documentation I'd need to learn how to
> set up a build environment to do this?  I recently inherited an older
> computer box from my sister and I just picked up another like it to start
> trying to teach myself Linux from Scratch.  Now that I have two spare boxes
> I'd be willing to try to do this on one of them and just leave it in the
> background compiling all day if necessary.

Most of what you need to get started is listed on the Banshee web page. 
I'd suggest having a good IRC chat client handy, as sometimes it does 
help to have people that you can easily ask should you hit a stumbling 
block of one sort or another. IRC has certainly helped me in the 
occasions where I've needed to build things for the first time. You may 
also want to look and see if you can find a local "Linux Users Group" or 
similar that might have someone willing to look over your shoulder and 
provide helpful tips. (I believe some will even schedule "build nights" 
for communal sharing of the highs and lows of building software.)

The first place to start a build environment is that you need to get the 
source code. Most of the information you need here is on:

http://banshee-project.org/download/development/

Jump down to the "Building From Source" section first and run the two 
apt-get commands under Ubuntu to get most of the tools that you will 
need. Then you can run through the collection of svn and git commands at 
the top to grab the source code. (You'll probably want to set up a nice 
folder somewhere for all of the source code.)

The commands for how to build it can be found on the "Write Code" page:

http://banshee-project.org/contribute/write-code/

Hopefully there is enough good information on Banshee's pages to get you 
started. Don't let the need to have the source code around, or any 
errors you encounter in this process, scare you. Eventually you might 
start to pick up some of how and why things work and maybe even get a 
feel for reading some of the source code, but don't feel the need to 
rush any of that. Again, IRC can be a useful place to ask questions when 
you don't understand something.

There's quite a bit of other useful information in Banshee's 
"Contribute" section as well, should you be interested in it.

> As I said above I just did a survey of the other players and decided that
> Banshee was the best for my usage after all, so I want to do what I can to
> help contribute if at all possible.  Also thanks for the advice to calm down
> a bit, before I ended up looking even more foolish than I already had.
> Forcing myself to step away for awhile and trying out the alternatives was
> just what I needed to rethink my position.

You're welcome. I'm glad that you took my advice.

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--Max Battcher--
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