svn and cmake.

[Knapp]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 4:32 PM, John Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com> wrote:
> On Monday 22 September 2008 03:48:40 pm Paul Lemmons wrote:
>
>>
>> sudo apt-get install subversion
>>
>> I *think* this is what you are asking for...
>>
>> The same would apply for scribus as well, uless you are in
>> desperate need of the development version of the software.
>>
>> sudo apt-get install scribus
>
> First, I was disappointed in Kubuntu in several respects, not the
> least of which the silly restriction against  signing on as root. So
> I tried a few Debian installs, ending up with Debian testing.  This
> offered the current stable version of Scribus (1.3.3.12). But I was
> looking for the bleeding edge version. I did
> apt-get install subversion
> and that worked fine. Thanks for the hint. I did
> apt-get install gcc
> I think there is a more general command to download the compiler, the
> linker etc. but I don't know what it is.
> After making two directories and successfulley running svn in one I
> did
> apt-get install cmake
> and that succeeded but apparently there is some setup required for
> cmake.  It errored off because the compiler is not specified.  I'll
> try copying over the Slack version of cmake and see if that works.
>
> This list is probably not the right one to discuss the innards of
> Debian testing so I'll look for a more appropriate one. Thanks for
> your help with subversion. Guessing what Debian/Kubuntu calls things
> is a bit of an art form.
>
> --
> John Culleton

I had this same problem so I just started up adept manager and typed
svn and up pops subversion. I am sure you can do this with command
line too. And there is a meta package for compiling stuff. Can't think
of the name of the top of my head.

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Douglas E Knapp

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