Comments on: Git and Banshee.OpenVP fun

By: MattM

MattM — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:08:22 +0000

I think I’m going to start a thread on Ubuntu Forums…
It’ll both get people to check out your site and help you finish this (or at least make it stable enough to implement into an official build), and help me figure out how come I can’t get it to work.
But right now I got (home)work to do!

By: MattM

MattM — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:07:30 +0000

matthew@ubuntu:~/cdhowie-clone$ ./autogen.sh
Running intltoolize –force –copy …
You should add the contents of ‘/usr/share/aclocal/intltool.m4′ to ‘aclocal.m4′.
Running libtoolize –force –copy –automake …
Running aclocal -I build/m4/banshee -I build/m4/shamrock -I build/m4/shave …
Running autoconf …
configure.ac:121: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GCONF_SOURCE_2
If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
See the Autoconf documentation.
configure:13545: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0
configure:18124: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT
Error: Could not run autoconf, which is required to configure banshee

By: MattM

MattM — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:06:30 +0000

Do I have to uninstall my repository-installed Banshee first?
I’d rather not configure all my preferences all over again…

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:50:37 +0000

That’s probably because you didn’t cd into the repository directory first.

By: MattM

MattM — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:41:03 +0000

Actually, I just tried building it, but when I try Step 2, it says:
fatal: not a git repository

what does this mean?

Also, it would be nice if we could edit our comments, but I suspect that that’s not possible, as this isn’t a forum, XD

By: MattM

MattM — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:28:36 +0000

Okay, maybe I’ll wait.

My Ubuntu install is not an independent install, so messing it up would mean I’d have to go with Vista.

Yeah, I’ll wait.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:21:39 +0000

You, of course, need to install Git if you don’t have it — try aptitude install git-core. There is also a good chance you will have to install a lot of -dev packages to build Banshee.

I don’t have an Ubuntu Forums account, and any thread that I would create there would basically be a copy of the page I’ve already linked you to. (You are, of course, more than welcome to post that link on the forums yourself.)

OpenVP is still in development, and so it’s currently not easy to build and use. It requires compiling a Banshee branch from source, for example. If you’re not comfortable building things from source, then I would suggest waiting for the next Banshee release instead.

By: MattM

MattM — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:34:51 +0000

Okay, I tried entering the code (git clone git://gitorious.org/banshee/cdhowie-clone.git) in the Terminal, said there was no “git” command. So I excluded “git” and just started with “clone” same thing.

I’m using Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope.

Do you have a Ubuntu Forums account? Can you make a thread there on how to build/install it?

Sorry, don’t really know how to build source code…

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:54:24 +0000

There is currently no stable release, but you can build all the parts using these instructions.

It’s currently not implemented in an official release because it’s not done yet.

By: MattM

MattM — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:16:33 +0000

Question:

How do I download these?

I have asked around the usual sites (incl. Ubuntu Forums) and nobody knows what the heck I’m talking about when I mention any kind of visualization for Banshee.

Are you sure this is for GNOME?
How come I haven’t seen it implemented in any of the official releases?

Thanks,
MattM.