How to Install the Latest version of Gcompris

[trellis2]

GCompris is a high quality educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. It's translated into over 40 languages. I use it to learn other languages and the kid can use it too ;). As of Oct/01/2009 GCompris in the Jaunty repositories doesn't work. It's an old version with an unsatisfied dependency. Installing python-numeric will fix it.
Code:
sudo apt-get install python-numeric but this only give you an experimental version. It would be better to install the latest version, which is easier said than done. Here is a method that worked for me.
Download gcompris from http:////sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=6865&filename=gcompris-8.4.12.tar.gz&a=93275535
while that is downloading open a terminal and run these commands to get all dependencies met :you@yourComputer~$ sudo apt-get install libgnet-dev libgnet2.0-0 python-pysqlite2 and
you@yourComputer~$ sudo apt-get build-dep gcompris
After the download completes change to the directory where you downloaded compris-8.4.12.tar.gz you@yourComputer~$ cd /wher/ever/it/is/gccompris-8.4.12.tar.gz
you@yourComputer~$tar -xvf gcompris-X.X.tar.gz
you@yourComputer~$cd gcompris-x.x.x
you@yourComputer~$sh configure
you@yourComputer~$sudo make
you@yourComputer~$sudo make install
Now test the install to see that it's working properly
you@yourComputer~$gcompris
You can create a lancher icon using the launcher.

[hubie]

Thank you for this info. I haven't upgraded my laptop yet, but my kids love Gcompris and they'd be quite upset if I upgraded and broke the program. :)

[joshzam]

Thanks for the walk-through. Very useful!

[j.h.klein]

Thanks but I consistently get the error message:
config.status: error: cannot find input file: `autopackage/Makefile.in'
at the end of "configure",
Any hint ?

[Jlb181]

I was able to install gcompris 11.12 on Ubuntu 11.10 using this information. And again later on a second Ubuntu 11.10 64 bit machine.Everything works. At least with gCompris, I have not to this point noticed any problems with my Ubuntu 11.10. The installation upgraded 9.6.1 to 11.12.

sudo apt-get install libgnet-dev libgnet2.0-0 python-pysqlite2

and (I did have to build the dependencies)

Download the archive gcompris-X.X.tar.gz (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gcompris/files/) then:
tar -xvf gcompris-X.X.tar.gz
cd gcompris-X.X
sh configure
Analyse, the errors, install the missing dependancies. Often you will have to install the -devel packages on your distribution. On Ubuntu or Debian, you can get all the build dependancies with the command ’apt-get build-dep gcompris’.

Then run:
make
make install