"Travis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:36:23 -0800:
> I want to compile Pan 0.133 from source on my netbook. I have Ubuntu > dual boot with XP. I have just done "apt-get install build-essential" > that I read about on http://www.linux.com/feature/54945 paragraph 9. > The rest of the directions I don't get. Any help will be appreciated. Hopefully someone with direct Ubuntu knowledge will step in to fill in what I miss as I don't run Ubuntu, but Gentoo. However... Having read the linked instructions, it looks like you should now do this (with sudo if appropriate): apt-get build-dep pan Since both Ubuntu 2008.x versions come with pan 0.132, and the deps between it and 0.133 aren't different except that 0.133 allows never versions of various dependencies, according to the link, that should install the various dev-packages (build-deps), containing headers and etc that compiling pan from source requires but that aren't included in the normal binary packages because they aren't required for running pre-built binaries. If you don't already have it, you also want to install checkinstall: apt-get install checkinstall Once you've done that without error, you should have what's necessary to build and install pan. Now, you need the pan sources tarball itself. Download it from pan.rebelbase.com and untar it (this part can be as a normal user) to some working directory. The below assumes you are running the various commands from the pan sources dir you just untarred, so cd into it now. The configure script sets up the build for your system, detecting all sorts of stuff like which compiler to use (gcc), where utilities like sed are located, what command line options various things need, that sort of stuff. Another bit of configuration that the configure script handles is various compile time options. You can run (normally these work run as a normal user)... ./configure --help ... to get a list. Most things will be auto-detected so you don't need to worry about them, but the spelling option is of particular interest and I believe you have to specifically enable it or it's disabled. For your first try, I'd say turn on spelling only if the default Ubuntu version has it, because otherwise you'll have to download additional dependencies. Better to just do it like Ubuntu does for now and worry about spelling later if it doesn't enable it and you want it. Once you've figured out your configure command line, you'll run it as simply ./configure to use the defaults, or (as appropriate) ./configure --with-whatever --without-whichever Once the configure script has finished without error, it's time to do the actual compile. This will take some time, particularly on a limited resource netbook, so you can set it running and go eat lunch or watch a TV program or whatever. Figure half an hour, possibly more. (I've no idea how long it'll take on that, maybe even two hours, if it's still spitting out updates every couple minutes or so, just let it keep going.) As with configure, make should normally be runnable as a user, tho there may be occasional access errors but if so it's really a bug either with pan or with Ubuntu. This command is simple: make After that completes, assuming success, most people would run make install. However, the Ubuntu way seems to be checkinstall, which will make a normal .deb package out of it and install that. That's the better way, since the package manager then knows about it and can handle uninstall and etc. This would again need run as root, with sudo, etc. according to the link (and it makes sense since you're installing to dirs that aren't normally user writable), but other than that, I don't know anything about it since it's Debian/Ubuntu specific. checkinstall Hope it helps! =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
