way old version in "supported" lucid (LTS)

[Brian J. Murrell]

Binary package hint: gtk-gnutella

Lucid is an LTS release and as such is supposed to be supported, currently, yet the version of this package that's currently available is old and out of date and non-functional as such. The "yearly stable" release was made a couple of days ago. In order to maintain your currently supported status of LTS, this package should be updated.

[zapman (zapman)]

Indeed, I think it would be great if motu updated gtk-gnutella regularly, and not only for Lucid.

That said, compiling gtkg from source is extremely easy. Just download the source tarball from <http://gtk-gnutella.sourceforge.net/>, extract it say in your home directory. Then open a terminal and type (or copy&paste) the following commands:
sudo apt-get install fakeroot debhelper gcc make zlib1g-dev libgnutls-dev gettext libdbus-1-dev libglib2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev
cd gtk-gnutella-0.[autocomplete with tab]
./build.sh
sudo make install

That's all there is to it, and if necessary the README.Debian file in the source tarball provides additional information (for example if you'd like to create a deb package). BTW, the next version should be released in a couple of days.

[Brian J. Murrell (brian-interlinx)]

On 12-11-08 09:03 AM, zapman wrote:
>
> That said, compiling gtkg from source is extremely easy. Just download the source tarball from <http://gtk-gnutella.sourceforge.net/>, extract it say in your home directory. Then open a terminal and type (or copy&paste) the following commands:
> sudo apt-get install fakeroot debhelper gcc make zlib1g-dev libgnutls-dev gettext libdbus-1-dev libglib2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev
> cd gtk-gnutella-0.[autocomplete with tab]
> ./build.sh
> sudo make install

That's a horrible thing to suggest people to do as they will wind up
with files in their filesystem that are not managed by any package
manager. Inevitably they will end up with old stale files that cause
problems as newer versions of the package are installed with a package
manager.