Re: [gthumb-list] Where to get :q

[Chris Green <cl isbd net>]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:10:57AM -0200, Lincoln de Sousa wrote:
> 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
Ah, that should be enough, I just need gthumb, gthumb-data, libexiv2-11
and libglib2.0-0, I'm happy installing those 'outside repository' as it
were.  I just couldn't find all the bits I needed before, thank you.


-- 
Chris Green