HOWTO: Installing new version of GThumb in Breezy

[accoleon]

Hello everyone, this is my first howto here, hope it helps.

Problem:
Gthumb opens a browser window when you click on a picture in Nautilus, instead of opening/viewing the picture itself. Annoying. It is fixed it gthumb-2.6.8. Unfortunately, it is not available in the Breezy repos just yet.

Solution:

1. Enable universe/multiverse in Breezy repos
2. Download and install checkinstall
sudo apt-get install checkinstall
3. Download gthumb-2.6.8 source from http://gthumb.sourceforge.net
4. Extract the source from the tarball and enter the directory
sudo tar -zxf gthumb-2.6.8.tar.gz
cd gthumb-2.6.8
5. Build dependencies for gthumb
sudo apt-get build-dep gthumb
6. Run configure and make for gthumb
./configure && make
6.1. TIP: If you are on a HT or multiprocessing system, change X into the number of your processors + 1, for faster compilation, e.g., on a P4 HT CPU, use 'make -j3'
./configure && make -jX
7. If all the compilation is done without errors (hopefully, of course, since we've already gotten all the dependencies), use checkinstall to create and install a debian package. Just hit enter through all the questions checkinstall throws at you.
sudo checkinstall -D
8. Let checkinstall run, it will create a .deb package in the gthumb-2.6.8 directory and install it automatically, and if anything goes horribly wrong, you could remove it through dpkg -r, apt-get remove or Synaptic.

If everything goes right, when you open Gthumb by selecting a picture in Nautilus now, it should open it straightaway, instead of displaying the browser!

Hope it helps those affected :) I can try to answer questions, but since i have not encountered any problems with building mine, I might not be able to answer them succinctly.. :)

[XDevHald]

Notice: This howto has been tested and is being discussed before confirming any action.

Please do not install until other notice.

Thank You!

[skorpi0wn]

What if you get this error when trying to install?

E: Build-dependencies for gthumb could not be satisfied.

[Rev. Nathan]

Worked just fine for me. Timely, though.

[tnilsson]

It worked fine for me! :-)
I discovered that the update manager want to install the old version again...
other than that it is great!

[Señor Ameba]

Hi guys. Tried and got this;


*********************************
configure:2501: checking for C compiler default output file name
configure:2504: gcc conftest.c >&5
configure:2507: $? = 0
configure:2553: result: a.out
configure:2558: checking whether the C compiler works
configure:2564: ./a.out
./configure: line 2565: ./a.out: Permission denied
configure:2567: $? = 126
configure:2576: error: cannot run C compiled programs.
If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.
See `config.log' for more details.
***********************************



Here is the whole file;
This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

It was created by gthumb configure 2.6.9, which was
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.59. Invocation command line was

$ ./configure

## --------- ##
## Platform. ##
## --------- ##

hostname = Jedah
uname -m = i686
uname -r = 2.6.12-9-386
uname -s = Linux
uname -v = #1 Mon Oct 10 13:14:36 BST 2005

/usr/bin/uname -p = unknown
/bin/uname -X = unknown

/bin/arch = i686
/usr/bin/arch -k = unknown
/usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown
hostinfo = unknown
/bin/machine = unknown
/usr/bin/oslevel = unknown
/bin/universe = unknown

PATH: /usr/local/sbin
PATH: /usr/local/bin
PATH: /usr/sbin
PATH: /usr/bin
PATH: /sbin
PATH: /bin
PATH: /usr/bin/X11


## ----------- ##
## Core tests. ##
## ----------- ##

configure:1589: checking for a BSD-compatible install
configure:1644: result: /usr/bin/install -c
configure:1655: checking whether build environment is sane
configure:1698: result: yes
configure:1731: checking for gawk
configure:1747: found /usr/bin/gawk
configure:1757: result: gawk
configure:1767: checking whether make sets $(MAKE)
configure:1787: result: yes
configure:2033: checking build system type
configure:2051: result: i686-pc-linux-gnu
configure:2059: checking host system type
configure:2073: result: i686-pc-linux-gnu
configure:2093: checking for style of include used by make
configure:2121: result: GNU
configure:2192: checking for gcc
configure:2208: found /usr/bin/gcc
configure:2218: result: gcc
configure:2462: checking for C compiler version
configure:2465: gcc --version </dev/null >&5
gcc (GCC) 4.0.2 20050808 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.0.1-4ubuntu9)
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

configure:2468: $? = 0
configure:2470: gcc -v </dev/null >&5
Using built-in specs.
Target: i486-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,java,f95,objc,ada,treelang --prefix=/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.0.2 --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --program-suffix=-4.0 --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-libstdcxx-allocator=mt --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-java-gc=boehm --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-gtk-cairo --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-gcj-4.0-1.4.2.0/jre --enable-mpfr --disable-werror --enable-checking=release i486-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.0.2 20050808 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.0.1-4ubuntu9)
configure:2473: $? = 0
configure:2475: gcc -V </dev/null >&5
gcc: '-V' option must have argument
configure:2478: $? = 1
configure:2501: checking for C compiler default output file name
configure:2504: gcc conftest.c >&5
configure:2507: $? = 0
configure:2553: result: a.out
configure:2558: checking whether the C compiler works
configure:2564: ./a.out
./configure: line 2565: ./a.out: Permission denied
configure:2567: $? = 126
configure:2576: error: cannot run C compiled programs.
If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.
See `config.log' for more details.

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## Cache variables. ##
## ---------------- ##

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## ----------------- ##

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## ----------- ##
## confdefs.h. ##
## ----------- ##

#define PACKAGE "gthumb"
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#define PACKAGE_NAME "gthumb"
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#define PACKAGE_TARNAME "gthumb"
#define PACKAGE_VERSION "2.6.9"
#define VERSION "2.6.9"

configure: exit 1

[Señor Ameba]

My, that's what i call copy/paste : p