[Linux-disciples] upgrading protocol

[Adam Kessel]

No, definitely not the best way to do that!

You should never install things into the regular filesystem hierarchy
except through the Debian tools.  If you did want to build an upstream
tarball, you would need to manually get all the dependencies, and also
install it into, e.g., /usr/local.  Debian manages the regular
directories and you'll get yourself in trouble if you try to mess with
them outside of dpkg, apt-get, and the like.

Your best bet would be to add unstable to your sources, and pin galeon to
unstable and everything else to testing.  

Barring that, you could also download the Galeon DEB file from unstable
packages.debian.org and dpkg -i galeon[...].deb. You may find you also
need to download several other dependencies from unstable.  

If you want to compile from source, you should consider using apt-get
source from the Debian source and building it in /usr/src.  

Note that Debian has a lot of patches to Mozilla and Galeon to make them
work properly; you may not get workable results by using the upstream
sources.  

On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 09:03:17PM -0500, Nirmal Trivedi wrote:
> So I want to upgrade to galeon 1.3.10. I downloaded the tarball,
> unpacked it, moved it to /usr/ and ran ./configure and got the
> following: (is this is best way to upgrade if I don't want to add
> unstable to my apt-sources?). I am running galeon 1.3.9 so I'm wondering
> why I would not have the correct dependencies.
> 
> checking for              gtk+-2.0 >= 2.2.0               libxml-2.0 >=
> 2.4.0  libgnomeui-2.0 >= 2.0.5                  libbonoboui-2.0 >=
> 2.1.1  libglade-2.0 >= 2.0.0            libbonobo-2.0 >=
> 2.0.0                  glib-2 .0 >= 2.0.0               gobject-2.0 >=
> 2.0.0            gdk-pixbuf-2.0 >= 2.2. 0                 gdk-2.0 >=
> 2.2.0                bonobo-activation-2.0 >= 2.0.0                  
> ORBit-2.0 >= 2.0.0              gnome-vfs-2.0 >= 2.0.0 
> gnome-vfs-module-2.0 >= 2.0.0            gconf-2.0 >= 2.0.0  ... Package
> gtk+-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gtk+-2.0.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'gtk+-2.0' found
>  
> configure: error: Library requirements (                  gtk+-2.0 >=
> 2.2.0  libxml-2.0 >= 2.4.0              libgnomeui-2.0 >=
> 2.0.5                 libbon oboui-2.0 >= 2.1.1               
> libglade-2.0 >= 2.0.0                   libbon obo-2.0 >=
> 2.0.0                  glib-2.0 >= 2.0.0               gobject-2.0 >= 
> 2.0.0            gdk-pixbuf-2.0 >= 2.2.0                 gdk-2.0 >=
> 2.2.0  bonobo-activation-2.0 >= 2.0.0                   ORBit-2.0 >=
> 2.0.0  gnome-vfs-2.0 >= 2.0.0           gnome-vfs-module-2.0 >=
> 2.0.0           gconf- 2.0 >= 2.0.0                              ) not
> met; consider adjusting the PKG_ CONFIG_PATH environment variable if
> your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix s o pkg-config can find them.
> 
> 
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