Re: Need help to get started
- From: Adam Dingle <adam medovina org>
- To: Hashem Nasarat <hnasarat gmail com>
- Cc: nautilus-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Need help to get started
- Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 19:19:57 -0004
Parin,
I would strongly recommend running a newer Ubuntu if you want to build recent versions of GNOME applications from source. In particular, I'd recommend the daily build of Ubuntu 13.10, which you can find here:
But even 13.10 has only GNOME 3.8, which is not new enough for building some applications from git master. In particular, Nautilus in git master requires at least GTK 3.9.11, but Ubuntu 13.10 only has GTK 3.8.2. Alas, the fact that Ubuntu lags behind GNOME by one release cycle makes it much harder to develop for GNOME on Ubuntu than it would be if Ubuntu shipped a current GNOME.
Probably your best bet in this case is to build the entire GNOME 3.10 world using jhbuild. That will take hours, but should allow you to complete a build. This is what most GNOME developers do.
The GNOME 3 PPA (
https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3) sometimes contains newer versions of various GNOME packages. Unfortunately this PPA does not yet contain GTK 3.9 for Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy), but I'm hopeful that it will appear there in the coming weeks.
As Hashem pointed out, the gnome-love mailing list and IRC channel are a good place for this sort of question. Good luck!
adam
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Hashem Nasarat <hnasarat gmail com> wrote:
Welcome!
GNOME uses a tool called jhbuild to automate much of the building
from source. There's one (of a few) tutorial here
https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeLove/JHBuildIntroduction
Still, you may need to upgrade your distribution to pull in newer
versions of some of the dependencies.
Sorry for the brief email, but do ask back if you have questions.
Also the gnome-love gnome org and #gnome-love irc channel are geared
toward helping newcomers.
On 09/03/2013 02:53 PM, Parin Porecha
wrote:
While running './autogen.sh', I'm getting the error - "No
package 'tracker-sparql-0.16' found". The version of this
package that can be installed via 'apt-get' is 0.14.I am using
Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise), Gnome 3.4.2 and Nautilus 3.4.
Do I need to upgrade my distro ?
I want to hack on nautilus, so is there any other way of
building nautilus, or can anyone please help me how to remove
this error ?
Sorry if this is not the mailing list for these types of
queries, I had to post it here because I didn't get any
response in IRC.
Thanks
--
Regards,
Parin Porecha
say Kifflom! and look forward to 17.09.13 !
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