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gtk-gnutella package

  1. Bug #736135
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 736135

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Brian J. Murrell (brian-interlinx) wrote : Re: [Bug 736135] Re: way old version in "supported" lucid (LTS)

On 12-11-08 09:03 AM, zapman wrote:
>
> That said, compiling gtkg from source is extremely easy. Just download the source tarball from <http://gtk-gnutella.sourceforge.net/>, extract it say in your home directory. Then open a terminal and type (or copy&paste) the following commands:
> sudo apt-get install fakeroot debhelper gcc make zlib1g-dev libgnutls-dev gettext libdbus-1-dev libglib2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev
> cd gtk-gnutella-0.[autocomplete with tab]
> ./build.sh
> sudo make install

That's a horrible thing to suggest people to do as they will wind up
with files in their filesystem that are not managed by any package
manager. Inevitably they will end up with old stale files that cause
problems as newer versions of the package are installed with a package
manager.