HOWTO: Bibus Breezy packages

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From the Bibus homepage:
Bibus is a bibliographic database. As other such tools, Bibus allows to search, edit, sort you bibliographic records, etc. Bibus has however some features that makes its unique among opensource and even commercial bibliographic databases.

I have built the Bibus debian packages for Ubuntu Breezy, as in Breezy the OOo2 location is different from the one in Debian or Dapper.

Contents
1. Installation
2. Package Compilation (Not Required)

1. Installation
First you need to install the packages Bibus depends on. Open a terminal window and type:

sudo apt-get install python-wxgtk2.6 python-uno

You need to install also a SQL engine.

• If you want to use SQLite:
  You need to add the bibus repository for the required packages. Run:

  sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

  And add the following line to the sources.list file:

  ## Bibus
  deb http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/bibus-biblio ./
  deb-src http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/bibus-biblio ./

  To download and install the packages:

  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install libsqliteodbc python-pysqlite2

• Or if wou want use MySQL:

  sudo apt-get install libmyodbc mysql-server mysql-common mysql-client python-mysqldb

After the packages are installed, type the following to correctly configure python-uno (otherwise the python pyuno module may fail to load):

sudo ldconfig -v /usr/lib/openoffice2/program

The next step is to download the Bibus packages. Type:

wget http://netosoft.no-ip.org/Ubuntu/breezy/bibus/bibus_1.2.0-2~neto1_all.deb
wget http://netosoft.no-ip.org/Ubuntu/breezy/bibus/bibus-doc-en_1.2.0-2~neto1_all.deb

After downloading, you'll end up with 2 .deb files. To install them run:

sudo dpkg -i bibus_1.2.0-2~neto1_all.deb bibus-doc-en_1.2.0-2~neto1_all.deb

Now you are ready to use bibus. Type bibus in a terminal window, or run it from Applications->Office->Bibus bibliographic database

2. Package Compilation (Not Required)
If you want to compile bibus from source, download the following:

wget http://netosoft.no-ip.org/Ubuntu/breezy-sources/bibus/bibus_1.2.0-2~neto1.diff.gz
wget http://netosoft.no-ip.org/Ubuntu/breezy-sources/bibus/bibus_1.2.0-2~neto1.dsc
wget http://netosoft.no-ip.org/Ubuntu/breezy-sources/bibus/bibus_1.2.0.orig.tar.gz

Then, run

dpkg-source -x bibus_1.2.0-2~neto1.dsc
dpkg-buildpackage -uc -nc -rsudo

After the build process is done, you will end up with two deb files, one containing bibus and the other its documentation.