Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:50:34 +1000
From: Adrian 
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Subject: Re: Upgrading Gtk-gnutella-0.96.1 to 0.96.3
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noalternative wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 10:27:06 +1000, Adrian wrote:
> 
>> noalternative wrote:
>>> On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 11:07:25 -0600, noalternative wrote:
>>>
>>>  to their irc chatroom and freenode and I
>>>> was directed toward this page.
>>>>
>>>> http://gtk-gnutella.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gtk-gnutella
trunk/gtk-gnutella/README.Debian?revision=12313&view=markup
>>>>
>>>>
>> Thanks for your reply err...No? :-)
>> That is one of the readme files I have been (trying to) use. I got stuck
>> at step 2.
>>
>>>    38 2. Build:
>>>    39 =========
>>>    40
>>>    41 Run from the top of the source tree: 42
>>>    43   $ fakeroot debian/rules binary
>>>    44
>>>    45 and it will build the .deb package for you in the parent
>>>    directory.
>>
>> What does:
>> "Run from the top of the source tree:"


that's what I thought, but since I wasn't having much success I thought 
I better ask anyway.


> 
> from the directory that was created when you untarred the tar.gz.
>> and
>> "$ fakeroot debian/rules binary"
>> actually mean?
> 
> I don't know.


Well I guess that makes two of us.


>> Do I have to cd to the directory first. I downloaded the file to my
>> desktop.
>>
>> "$ fakeroot" doesn't seam to work in ubuntu-6.06.
>>
>> Should/can I use "sudo" instead of $ fakeroot?
> 
> You will probably end up with permission problems.

Yes well the reading I have done on "fakeroot" says it's something to do 
with privileges.


>> It's probably me but I have tried running that script every which way
>> with no success what so ever.
>>
>>
>>> by the way this package really needs to be backported, because the
>>> dapper version just doesn't work and the gtk-gnutellla people will not
>>> support it.
>> That would be great.
>>
>>
> maybe you need to go the irc.freenode.net channel.  #gtk-gnutella
> 

Thanks mate, I'll check that out.
All the best.
-Adrian DownUnder.
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