Re: Compiling Gnome-APT on a fresh Slink box

[Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE>]

Mitch Blevins wrote:
> In foo.debian-deity, you wrote:
> > I was just compiling Gnome-APT on a freshly installed Slink box in
> > preparation for a CD set but occurred some problems:
> > 
> > [snip build errors]
> > 
> > Jason already assumed yesterday that some Gnome API might have changed.
> > That's why I didn't use my slink/potato system this time.  The error
> > is also present in Slink like you can see.
> > 
> > I hope one of you can fix this problem.
> 
> Doesn't slink use the gnome 0.3.x stuff?  I don't think it is reasonable
> to expect Havoc to support both the newest gnome and the 0.3.x versions.

Yes, that's what Slink normally provides.

> But you might have some success if you install the gnome-stage-slink
> packages and the newest apt before compiling.

And it doesn't work anything better with the staging Gnome.

Torsten has gotton it to work but it crashes, iirc.

Regards,

	Joey

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