[ gpsdrive ] svn insall questions

[Andreas Putzo]

On Sep 17  07:40, chris h wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 September 2008 07:25:27 Guenther Meyer wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch 17 September 2008 schrieb chris h:
> > > On Tuesday 16 September 2008 13:46:17 Jörg Ostertag wrote:
> > > > 	svn co http://svn.gpsdrive.de/trunk gpsdrive
> > > Is this now located on sourceforge?
> >
> > yes, it's moved to sourceforge:
> > https://gpsdrive.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gpsdrive
> 
> Running a simple debuild does of course not resolve any of the dependency 
> problems for Ubuntu.  

It would if the dependencies of the binary package were sane.
${shlibs:Depends} should take care of all of the library dependencies.
Removing the lib* dependencies from the control file would certainly
help building the package from source. 
'apt-get build-dep gpsdrive' installs all packages needed to build gpsdrive
btw.

> However pbuilder (as noted in the error messages) is 
> interesting so dug up the following tutorial and will start to work on it as 
> time permits. This will require a separate install as to not hose existing 
> workstation and to meet dependency requirements. 
> 
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PbuilderHowto

Using pbuilder is of course always a good idea :)


Regards,
Andreas