Re: Compiling gnome-sudoku on Ubuntu 16.04 (standard unity desktop)

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

Hey,

On Tue, 2016-07-26 at 14:58 +0200, Igor Lopez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have fetched the source (latest
> commit 283f24cd2f4fa754d7b7ab7baf533ad7e4281462) and am trying to
> build it.
> Running: 
>  $ ./autogen.sh --prefix=`pwd`/install
> in the gnome-sudoku folder gives me this:
>
>  .
>  .
>  checking pkg-config is at least version 0.16... yes
>  ./configure: line 16245: APPSTREAM_XML: command not found
>  checking for GNOME_SUDOKU... no
>  configure: error: Package requirements (
>    glib-2.0 >= 2.40.0
>    gio-2.0 >= 2.40.0
>    gtk+-3.0 >= 3.19.0
>    gee-0.8
>  ) were not met:
>
>  No package 'gtk+-3.0' found
>
>  Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
>  installed software in a non-standard prefix.
>
>  Alternatively, you may set the environment variables
> GNOME_SUDOKU_CFLAGS
>  and GNOME_SUDOKU_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
>  See the pkg-config man page for more details.
>
>  $
>
> Checking for gtk I get this:
>
>  $ dpkg --list gtk*
>  ii  gtk2-engines-murrine:amd64        0.98.2-0ubuntu2.1        amd64
>                   cairo-based gtk+-2.0 theme engine
>  un  gtk2.0-binver-2.10.0                   <none>                  
>       <none>                  (description missing)
>  un  gtk3-binver-3.0.0                        <none>                
>         <none>                  (description missing)
>  un  gtk3-engines-oxygen                  <none>                    
>     <none>                  (description missing)
>
> I can't say I know what pulled in the gtk2 component and I am not a
> stranger adding more packages as long it does not break current.

You don't have any development packages installed for GTK+ 3.x.

> The gnome-sudoku version bundled in the distribution is of
> version 3.18.2 and is running under unity.
> I just want to see if I can make some modifications (and maybe
> learning some vala at the same time)
>
> How should I proceed to be able to build the application(before
> modifying it)?

I think that this might work:
apt-get build-dep gnome-sudoku

if gnome-sudoku exists in the Debian repositories.

Cheers