I was trying to install mu on a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04 and thought that I would point out a few things that hung me up along the way, in case someone else encounters the same problems.
1. The mu webpage <http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/> says to run 'autoreconf -i' before running './configure', but this requires that one first install the libtool package. 2. I wanted to play with msg2pdf so in installed the libwebkit-dev package, but msg2pdf still failed to compile. I fixed this by purging libwebkit-dev and installing libwebkitgtk-3.0-dev. I'm not sure if this is because libwebkit-dev uses webkit 1.0 instead of 3.0, of if some header or library file was just misplaced. I also manually copied msg2pdf into /usr/local/bin. 3. This didn't actually hang me up, but the info file is installed into /usr/local/share/info which is not by default on the Info-directory-list in emacs. It will need to be added either at the system level or the user level (e.g., by adding the line (setq Info-directory-list (cons "/usr/local/share/info" Info-default-directory-list)) to the user's .emacs file. So all in all I actually did this to do the installation: sudo apt-get install libgmime-2.6-dev libxapian-dev sudo apt-get install libwebkitgtk-3.0-dev sudo apt-get install libtool tar xvfz mu-0.9.9.6.tar.gz cd mu-0.9.9.6 autoreconf -i # new to mu 0.9.9.6 and not yet mentioned in the docs ./configure && make sudo make install sudo cp -p toys/msg2pdf/msg2pdf /usr/local/bin/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mu-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
