Insufficient instructions for compiling from source; also, PPAs are not longer current
It seems to be that the advertised Ubuntu (/Mint etc.) PPAs do not contain the 0.11.3 code.
Also, fuller instructions for installing that code - installing from source - might be useful. I had to do the following (some of which is specific to Linux Mint).
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Download the source code from: https:/
Unpack somewhere (e.g. the desktop).
Install packages you need to compile Plank. On my system (which had some compilation stuff installed already) I needed to do:
sudo apt-get install libbamf3-dev gir1.2-gee-0.8 libwnck-3-dev libgee-0.8-dev
Open a terminal in the folder you unpacked the code into (or open terminal and use the 'cd' command to get to the folder you've unpacked the code into).
Do:
./configure && make && make install
Run plank by searching for plank in the MintMenu, or ALT-F2 and enter 'plank'.
To make plank start on boot: System Settings -> Startup Applications and add a entry. It might be best to make use of the delay field to add a delay of a few (3?) seconds.
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- Solved by:
- ALinuxUser
- Solved:
- 2017-03-07
- Last query:
- 2017-03-07
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- 2017-03-07
| Peter Feichtinger (shippo) said : | #1 |
There are pretty detailed instructions in the source directory in a file called HACKING.
The only thing I can see missing are prerequisites, which would indeed be nice to have.
| Peter Feichtinger (shippo) said : | #2 |
Come to think of it, ./configure (or ./autogen.sh for that matter) will probably tell you about missing libraries, no?
I think that `./configure` did tell me about the missing libraries. Some prior warning would have been nice. (Something like: 'You may have to install additional packages in order for the `./configure` to work.')
The 'hacking' file did prove useful, once I found it and stopped looking for a file called 'readme' or 'install'. (Or, if files with those names were there - I don't recall - they were not useful.)
In sum, I think a little more documentation of an easily-findable sort wouldn't go amiss.
| Sadi Yumuşak (sa-yu) said : | #4 |
Are there any changes between 0.11.1 and 0.11.3 that would make this path worth taking?
| Sadi Yumuşak (sa-yu) said : | #5 |
And here is an easier path for installing the "less stable" development version, e.g. 0.11.3:
https:/
| Rico Tzschichholz (ricotz) said : | #6 |
I will try to get it updated soon.
