[Shotwell] Install Vala 0.11.3??

[Adam Dingle]

To the original poster (Peace at aleksandrsolzhenitsyn.net):

What version of Ubuntu are you running?  I'm going to assume that you're
running Lucid Lynx (10.04), since the last error message you sent mentioned
Lucid.  If that's correct, then you'll need to build Shotwell from source,
since the Yorba PPA does not (and will not) include Shotwell 0.8 for Lucid.
You'll also need to build Vala from source, since Lucid comes with Vala 0.8
which is too old for building Shotwell, and the Vala PPA would give you Vala
0.11 which is too new for building Shotwell.

So here we go.  To build Vala from source, you'll need to extract it, then
run 'configure' and 'make'.  Your previous message showed that you were
doing this correctly, but were missing at least one build dependency for
Vala (Flex).  To install all required build dependencies (including Flex),
do this:

$ sudo apt-get build-dep vala

After that, do this:

$ cd ~/vala-0.10.2
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

You'll now have Vala 0.10 installed.  You should then be able to build
Shotwell following the instructions on the Yorba page.

If you have more questions about building Shotwell, feel free to ask here.
If you're new to Ubuntu I know that building programs seems confusing at
first, but hang in there - all this will seem easy before you know it.
We're here to help.

By the way, if you're running Ubuntu Maverick (10.10) instead, then there's
a much easier way - you should be able to install Shotwell 0.8 from the
Yorba PPA as Hawken mentioned.

adam

On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 2:23 PM, . <Peace at aleksandrsolzhenitsyn.net> wrote:

> On 01/08/2011 02:09 PM, Hawken Rives wrote:
> > Are you trying to install from source? 'Cause if you don't need to,
> > then using the PPA would be a lot easier.
> >
> > 1) Open the Terminal 3)
> > 2) Type |sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yorba/ppa && ||sudo apt-get
> > update && ||sudo apt-get install shotwell
> > |3) That should be it; Shotwell ought to be under Applications >
> > Graphics > Shotwell.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > -- Hawken
>
> Doesn't install 0.8.   Here's the error message-
>
> W: Failed to fetch
> http://ppa.launchpad.net/vala-team/ppa/ubuntu/dists/lucid/Release
> Unable to find expected entry  ma/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index
> file (malformed Release file?)
>
> E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old
> ones used instead.
>
>
>
>
>
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 9:40 PM, . <Peace at aleksandrsolzhenitsyn.net
> > <mailto:Peace at aleksandrsolzhenitsyn.net>> wrote:
> >
> >     I have no idea how to install Vala.
> >
> >     I read the link at http://yorba.org/shotwell/install/
> >
> >     ....and went to http://live.gnome.org/Vala/Release to get the tar
> >     of Vala.
> >
> >     The problem is I have no idea how to install Vala.  I'm really new at
> >     Ubuntu so the directions make too many assumptions in ability (which
> I
> >     don't have).
> >
> >     Can someone give the the exact commands to install Vala?
> >
> >     Thank you
> >
> >
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