Re: [Ekiga-list] [Ekiga-devel-list] Ekiga 3.2 is in Ubuntu 9.04

[David Fox <dfox94085 gmail com>]

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Stuart Lesnett
<stuart_lesnett lesnett com> wrote:
> Good to hear more from you, I assume you've really been busy.  My question
> is what about a large number of us running Ubuntu 8.04 32 bit mode?  I'm

That particular repository doesn't have 8.04 packages, just 8.10 and 9.04.

Something that might work (YMMV, of course) would be to grab the
deb-src line for either intrepid or jaunty (it shouldn't matter
which), add it to your /etc/apt/sources.list, and then do an aptitude
update to synchronize the repository to your local package collection.
Then you could try to do "apt-get -b source ekiga" which, if it
fetches the ppa repository will attempt to build a local .deb package
for your system. You'll probably want to do an "apt-get build-dep
ekiga" so that all the build dependencies are downloaded so you can
build those as well. Usually, you'll have to apt-get -b source the
dependencies (opal and ptlib for sure, perhaps others) and of course
run any build-dep sessions against those dependencies, if they have
not already been installed on your system.

It's a bit repetitive, but it should work - disclaimer is that I
didn't try this method with ekiga, and I no longer have any machines
that are running hardy, so I can't (easily) test. I have done this bit
with a few other packages, most notably amarok-nightly, because the
Neon stuff (daily builds) aren't available in 9.04, so I added the
source repository for intrepid and built the package for jaunty, and
it actually worked (at least up until 3/18, after that, there are
build dependencies on packages that I can't obtain yet).

In retrospect, it's probably easier to do things that way than the way
I did it before for 3.2.0 sources, which was to do repetitive
./configures, watch the thing blow up, go find the missing
dependencies, install them, rinse and repeat :).


> Stu Lesnett



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