[Shotwell] Install Vala 0.11.3??

[Adam Dingle]

On 01/08/2011 03:25 PM, . wrote:
> 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$
>

OK.  The problem is that the Vala PPA is still one of the software 
sources on your system.  This is preventing 'apt-get build-dep' from 
working, probably because the Vala PPA doesn't include a source package 
(which is where build dependencies are listed).  If you're building Vala 
yourself, you really don't want the Vala PPA around anyway.  So you need 
to do the following:

1. Remove all packages which might have come from the Vala PPA:

$ sudo apt-get remove vala libgee

2. Remove the Vala PPA from your software sources list.  To do this, go 
to System->Administration->Software Sources and choose the Other 
Software tab.  You should see the Vala PPA listed.  Uncheck it or remove 
it from the list.

3. Now try the 'sudo apt-get build-dep' command I listed above.

Hope this helps!

adam