On 1 March 2011 20:34, Tom Metro <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm just starting out with my first small Kexi project, and before I > start asking questions and offering suggestions, I'd like to be running > something a bit newer than the version 1.1.3 that's packaged for Ubuntu > 9.10. > > What's the recommended procedure for getting a 2.x package that works on > 9.10? > > I saw this thread: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.users.kexi/492 > > with suggestions on building from source and installing without a > package. My preference, though, would be to end up with a package. So my > plan is to download the source package for Ubuntu Natty > (koffice_2.3.1.orig.tar.bz2) and do a rebuild, but given all the > dependencies, I don't have high hopes I'll be able to resolve them all. > > I've gotten it as far as: > > dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: pkg-kde-tools (>= 0.9) > kdelibs5-dev (>= 4:4.5.2-0ubuntu1) kdepimlibs5-dev (>= 4:4.4.3) > libkdcraw-dev (>= 4:4.4.3) libphonon-dev (>= 4:4.6.0really4.4.0) > librcps-dev opengtl-dev libqtgtl-dev > > which seems like it is going to require a fair bit of package > backporting to satisfy those dependencies. > > Is there a better way, short of waiting until I upgrade to Ubuntu 10.10?
Hi, No, unless you agree to run virtual machine with newer distribution that includes Kexi. Since I am far from proposing switching to other distribution, for the future you may choose to press the Ubuntu maintainers a bit to backport the software to older distributions more aggressively. -- regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek Kexi & Calligra (kexi-project.org, identi.ca/kexi, calligra-suite.org) KDE Software Development Platform on MS Windows (windows.kde.org) _______________________________________________ Kexi mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kexi
