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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