[Kexi] Re: getting kexi 2.x for Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On 1 March 2011 20:34, Tom Metro <tmetro+kexi-users at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm just starting out with my first small Kexi project, and before I
> start asking questions and offering suggestions, I'd like to be running
> something a bit newer than the version 1.1.3 that's packaged for Ubuntu
> 9.10.
>
> What's the recommended procedure for getting a 2.x package that works on
> 9.10?
>
> I saw this thread:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.users.kexi/492
>
> with suggestions on building from source and installing without a
> package. My preference, though, would be to end up with a package. So my
> plan is to download the source package for Ubuntu Natty
> (koffice_2.3.1.orig.tar.bz2) and do a rebuild, but given all the
> dependencies, I don't have high hopes I'll be able to resolve them all.
>
> I've gotten it as far as:
>
> dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: pkg-kde-tools (>= 0.9)
> kdelibs5-dev (>= 4:4.5.2-0ubuntu1) kdepimlibs5-dev (>= 4:4.4.3)
> libkdcraw-dev (>= 4:4.4.3) libphonon-dev (>= 4:4.6.0really4.4.0)
> librcps-dev opengtl-dev libqtgtl-dev
>
> which seems like it is going to require a fair bit of package
> backporting to satisfy those dependencies.
>
> Is there a better way, short of waiting until I upgrade to Ubuntu 10.10?

Hi,
No, unless you agree to run virtual machine with newer distribution
that includes Kexi.
Since I am far from proposing switching to other distribution, for the
future you may choose to press the Ubuntu maintainers a bit to
backport the software to older distributions more aggressively.


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regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek
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 Kexi & Calligra (kexi-project.org, identi.ca/kexi, calligra-suite.org)
 KDE Software Development Platform on MS Windows (windows.kde.org)