On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:14:27AM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
It seems rather difficult to find .deb files for gThumb. I have the default 2.13.1 on my xubuntu 11.10 system but, following recent discussion here, I'd prefer to have 2.14.1 but I can't find a 2.14.1 anywhere to download. I suppose I could build from source but that will almost certainly get me into a dependency mess that I don't want, I really don't like leaving the safety of apt. :-)
Hi there, You can just create a new .deb package using Debian based tools such as uupdate and uscan. Here's a simplified example of what I usually do: # apt-get build-dep gthumb $ apt-get source gthumb $ cd gthumb-x.y.z $ uscan $ cd ../gthumb-k.u.v $ dpkg-buildpackage -sa Sometimes you have to update one or some patches to make it work, but if you just wanna try a new version, commenting out all lines of the debian/patches file usually works. I don't know which ubuntu version you're using and I'm not sure it's not gonna fit your system, but there's an ubuntu package here for gthumb: http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/gthumb Cheers, -- Lincoln de Sousa <lincoln comum org> xmpp:lincoln comum org http://comum.org http://culturadigital.br
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