Comment 13 for bug 43572

*Sigh* - why is nothing ever as easy as it sounds?

I need a recent version to do the brightness stuff (more recent than is in
Ubuntu or any Debian repos) and they only have rpms available. I downloaded
those and "alien"ed them and I get:

aaron@Zyanya:~$ dellLcdBrightness -h
Usage: dellLcdBrightness [options]

  --help, -h Displays this information
  --value, -v <args> set new value
  --battery, -b read battery setting
  --ac, -a read ac setting
  --password, -p <args> BIOS setup password
  --rawpassword Do not auto-convert password to scancodes
  --version Display libsmbios version information
aaron@Zyanya:~$ dellLcdBrightness -v 5
An Error occurred. The Error message is:
Could not instantiate SMBIOS table.
aaron@Zyanya:~$ dellLcdBrightness --battery
An Error occurred. The Error message is:
Could not instantiate SMBIOS table.

So I don't know if it was the install or the program.

I tried to compile the source but I don't really know what I am doing. I got it
to compile but couldn't execute the binary because I don't know how to set the
path to the required library. Sorry.