[Gambas-user] KUBUNTU 7.04, this might help others who are having difficulty...

[Benoit Minisini]

On lundi 15 octobre 2007, Stephen Bungay wrote:
> Greetings all!
>
>     Having migrated to KUBUNTU from Fedora (where GAMBAS was successfully
> compiled many many times) I had some difficulty finding all of the
> dependencies for KUBUNTU 7.04.
>   On initial ./reconf-all there were some libraries that I really REALLLY
> wanted to use. Below is a table of the things the reconf-all said was
> missing and the names of the items to search for in adept to install them.
>
>   NOTE- Anything left blank are items which I did not want so they are
> still disabled in my install of GAMABAS.
>
> DISABLED                        Search adept for these
> COMPONENT               items. Exact matches.
>
> - gb.db.firebird
> - gb.db.mysql           libmysqlclient15-dev
> - gb.db.odbc            unixodbc-dev
> - gb.db.sqlite3         
> - gb.gtk                        libgtk2.0-dev
> - gb.gtk.svg            librsvg2-dev
> - gb.net.curl           
> - gb.opengl             lib-mesa-swx11-dev
> - gb.pcre                       libpcre3-dev
> - gb.qt.kde                     kde-devel
> - gb.qte
> - gb.sdl                        libsdl-image1.2
> - gb.xml                        libxml2-dev
>
>   After the components I wanted were installed I did another ./reconf all
> and a ./configure. They both worked with no errors so make was the next
> step and it fell flat on its face complaining that;
>
> /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/libdirectfb.la: No such file or directory
> libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libdirectfb.la' is not a valid libtool archive
>
>   Seems that some more dependencies were missing, although the configure
> did not seem to mind, make certainly did. Go to adept Manager and seek out
> and install the following, do them both because if you only do the first
> one make will fail on the second.
>
> libdirectfb-dev
> libaa1-dev
>
>   Make then worked perfectly, make install went without a hitch and I now
> have the latest svn of the GAMBAS trunk (as of this writing) on my KUBUNTU
> 7.04 box.
>
> Steve.

Maybe you should put your experience in the wiki, at 
http://gambasdoc.org/help/install

Regards,

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Benoit Minisini