[HanoiLUG] Need help with getting 3ddesktop in Xubuntu 7

[Jean Christophe André]

Nguyen Viet Ha a écrit :
> When I try to get 3ddesktop for installing, I got this error :(
> E: Couldn't find package 3ddesktop
It means it's not available in any of your currently activated
repositories. Check "/etc/apt/sources.list" and every file in
"/etc/apt/sources.list.d".

From the Ubuntu website I can see that it's available in the standard
"universe" Ubuntu repository for Dapper (6.06), Edgy (6.10) and Feisty
(7.04), but not anymore (or not yet) for Gutsy (7.10) or Hardy (8.x,
next LTS release).

See there: http://packages.ubuntu.com/3ddesktop

> Some body could tell me how to fix it :( I'm using Xubuntu 7 with XFCE GUI
Are you using version 7.04 (Feisty) or 7.10 (Gutsy) ?


Anyway, something you could do: try to rebuild the Feisty package for Gutsy.

Here are a few instructions to do it:
- edit "/etc/apt/sources.list" to add the needed source repository:
    deb-src http://archives.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty universe
- update your package list:
    sudo aptitude update
- install the development tools as needed:
    sudo aptitude install build-essential devscripts fakeroot
- get the source of 3ddesktop:
    apt-get source 3ddesktop
- enter the extracted source directory:
    cd 3ddesktop-*
- check the required dependences:
    dpkg-checkbuilddeps
- install all of them to be able to build this package
- eventually create a new revision in the changelog:
    dch -i
- build the packages:
    dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
- install the packages:
    sudo dpkg -i ../3ddesktop*.deb

This was the manual way. Now there is an other, more automagic, way
using pbuilder but I don't master it yet and it requires a bunch of
downloads which may be annoying if you don't have a local APT repository
mirror.

Oh, by the way, to write this little documentation I've just built the
3ddesktop package for Gutsy and you will find it the the experimental
section of our repository. Enjoy! ;-)

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