Re: Need help to get started

[Sindhu S <sindhus live in>]

Hi, Parin!

I am running Ubuntu GNOME 13.04 which has GNOME 3.6 and have successfully jhbuilt nautilus.
Checking my package repositories I see that I have libtracker-sparql-0.14-0 package installed on my system.

When I do a `jhbuild list nautilus`, I see "tracker" as dependency for nautilus.

I'd like to ask you,

1. what command are you running to build nautilus?

Is it `jhbuild build nautilus`?

2. Have you skipped "tracker" module in your jhbuildrc?

Perhaps these could give us some clues.

I am on IRC right now, so maybe I can help you through this over chat?

-Sindhu

On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 12:53 AM, Adam Dingle <adam medovina org> wrote:

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:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/

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:

Hi, I am trying to build nautilus from source, and following the steps described here https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Nautilus/Development/Nautilus.

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 ?

There's also a question on AskUbuntu regarding this - http://askubuntu.com/questions/247132/where-can-i-find-tracker-sparql-0-16. The links given are not working, and someone even commented that "building 'nautilus' is overkill" ?!

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

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Regards,
Parin Porecha

say Kifflom! and look forward to 17.09.13 !

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