Building subsurface on Ubuntu

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Tue Mar 19 07:19:13 PDT 2013


Jan Schubert <Jan.Schubert at GMX.li> writes:

> On 19.03.2013 14:55, Jan Schubert wrote:
>> On 19.03.2013 12:20, Diego Mainou wrote:
>>> Hi Jan,
>>>
>>>
>>> This is what synoptic shows on my end
>>>
>>> subsurface (1.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
>> OK, you are on <=12.10, right? Seems 3.0.2 is only available in 13.04.
>>
>> This Ubuntu/debian thing seems to become a never ending story. For me
>> this is something really serious and prevents me from recommending this
>> distribution any further. Might be that it is easy to use but not having
>> the ability to have current software available is a show stopper.
>>
>> Anyway, lets concentrate on the "build your own" story. After reviewing
>> we really should include this in the user manual and on the webSite. I'd
>> start with this first draft:
>
> Sorry for the line breaks, lets try again:

Let me ask a silly question.

What is wrong with http://subsurface.hohndel.org/building/

I want to make sure we have easy to follow, sufficient documentation on
the website and to add the pieces missing THERE, not in one-off emails
on the mailing list that no one else will later find.

/D



> 1. Install all needed dependencies:
> sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libgtk2.0-dev libglib2.0-dev \
> libgconf2-dev libsoup2.4-dev libxslt1-dev zlib1g-dev libosmgpsmap-dev
>
> 2. checkout and build libdivecomputer
> git clone \
> git://libdivecomputer.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/libdivecomputer/libdivecomputer
> cd libdivecomputer
> git checkout release-0.3 #ignore for most current source
> autoreconf --install
> ./configure
> make
> sudo make install
> cd ..
>
> 3. checkout and build subsurface
> git clone git://subsurface.hohndel.org/subsurface.git
> cd subsurface
> git checkout v3.0.2 #ignore for most current source
> make
> sudo make install
> cd ..
>
> 4. Start using subsurface
> subsurface
>
> //Jan
>
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