Re: [Vala] install on Ubuntu 8.10?

[Michael Terry <mike mterry name>]

Bruce Cowan also maintains a PPA for vala (and other) stuff.  I use it
on Ubuntu 8.10.

https://launchpad.net/~bruce89/+archive/ppa

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On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Frederik <scumm_fredo gmx net> wrote:
> Glen Worstell wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I installed vala using synaptic and the 'hello world' sample worked
> > fine. However, the libraries required to do anything real did not get
> > installed. I messed with it for an hour or two and gave up.
> >
> > Could someone post clear installation details so one can do a complete
> > installation including necessary libraries, paths, etc?
> >
> > tia,
> > glen.
>
> The Vala version that comes with Ubuntu 8.10 is pretty old and will not
> work with most of the samples from the wiki. You sould deinstall the
> package and instead download the current release from
>
>  http://live.gnome.org/Vala/Release
>
> extract the archive, then compile and install it with:
>
>  ./configure
>  make
>  sudo make install
>
> Additionally you may want to install the following packages via Synaptic:
>
>  libgtk2.0-0      (GUI toolkit)
>  libgtk2.0-dev
>  libgee0          (Collections)
>  libgee-dev
>
> For every library that you want to use you must install the respective
> *-dev package.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Frederik
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