Building 2.84 on kubuntu 12.04

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josephj
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Building 2.84 on kubuntu 12.04

Post by josephj »

I'm trying to build 2.84 on my older kubuntu system (12.04) so I can make a tiny tweak to it.

I downloaded and unpacked transmission-2.84.tar.xz and ran configure. It failed on dependencies.
Then, I RTFM and tried to install the dependencies it needs and that failed.

What did I miss? Is 12.04 too old for this version?

TIA

Joe

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shelelia@halo:~/installs/transmission/transmission-2.84$ sudo apt-get install build-essential automake autoconf libtool pkg-config intltool libcurl4-openssl-dev libglib2.0-dev libevent-dev libminiupnpc-dev libminiupnpc5 libappindicator-dev
[sudo] password for shelelia: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
build-essential is already the newest version.
build-essential set to manually installed.
libminiupnpc5 is already the newest version.
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libappindicator-dev : Depends: libdbusmenu-glib-dev (>= 0.1.8) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
shelelia@halo:~/installs/transmission/transmission-2.84$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
shelelia@halo:~/installs/transmission/transmission-2.84$ 
josephj
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Re: Building 2.84 on kubuntu 12.04

Post by josephj »

Thanks for your reply.

I took a look at that post, but I don't see how it applies. I don't have the ppa on this machine. (I had it on my other newer notebook which just died.) Any other thoughts? Maybe I got 2.84 through the backports repo. I haven't worked on this machine for awhile and don't remember.
josephj
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Re: Building 2.84 on kubuntu 12.04

Post by josephj »

I just went down 4 levels in the dependency tree for apindicator and it wanted an exact version of libcairo-gobject... but my system wanted to install a newer version with oneiric in the name. I checked all my sources and all of them specify precise or nothing.
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