[Shotwell] Install Vala 0.11.3??

. Peace at Aleksandrsolzhenitsyn.net
Sat Jan 8 23:25:24 UTC 2011


On 01/08/2011 06:11 PM, Adam Dingle wrote:
> To the original poster (Peace at aleksandrsolzhenitsyn.net
> <mailto: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
No luck....here's the results (yes, I'm running 10.04)

echo at echo-laptop:~/vala-0.10.2$ sudo apt-get build-dep vala
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
E: Could not open file
/var/lib/apt/lists/ppa.launchpad.net_vala-team_ppa_ubuntu_dists_lucid_mai_source_Sources
- open (2: No such file or directory)
echo at echo-laptop:~/vala-0.10.2$




>
> 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
> <mailto: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>
>     > <mailto: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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