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./autoconf.sh file links to glib-2.2.0.tar.gz should be glib-2.2.0.tar.bz2

Asked by Duncan Lithgow

This is the only way I could think of for finding out who I should contact to get a dead link fixed. The ./configure.sh file I just ran (for gramps3.0) suggested I get ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.2/glib-2.2.0.tar.gz but that link is wrong, it should be a bz2 archive ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.2/glib-2.2.0.tar.bz2

Who/ what is responsible for the output of autoconf.sh?

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Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow) said : 		#1

Supplementary question: why is glib not in the Ubuntu repositories?

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Best Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) said : 		#2

If you have problems installing/compiling a file from source you should contact the authors directly.
Most probably is nobody's fault as you are required to satisfy manually all dependancies, and some libraries might have a different name in Debian than that which is assumed by the authors.
For instance, the glib libraries are in these packages:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=libglib&searchon=names&subword=1&version=feisty&release=all

Note that you have 3 distinct flavours:

plain library => runtime
-dev library => development library
-dbg library => with debug support

Of course you have to use the appropriate bindings as a function of the language used in programming your application.

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Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow) said : 		#3

Thanks for clearing that up