HOWTO: Gaim 2.0 beta cookbook

**mlind** · June 27th, 2006

To build gaim 2.0 beta3 for Dapper, you also need to build newer version of one additional library,
libgadu-dev to satisfy the build-time requirements.

You could build gaim using Dappers libgadu-dev library too, by modifying build-time dependencies,
but newer library contains some important security fixes

Initial setup

Before starting I suggest you to install debfoster, run it once and answer yes for all asked questions.
This way you set default state for installed packages and can easily uninstall all required build-time dependencies.
You can later "reset" debfoster using -n parameter after build-time dependencies have been removed and
you have successfully completed the steps of this HOWTO.
Code:
```
sudo aptitude install debfoster
sudo debfoster
```

Setup build environment

Install required tools for building process

Code:

sudo aptitude install build-essential cdbs devscripts dh-make fakeroot

libgadu-dev

Add Debian unstable repository to /etc/apt/sources.list

Code:

deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free

Update sources
Code:
```
sudo aptitude update
```

Get the source package

Code:

mkdir -p ~/packages/ekg
cd ~/packages/ekg
apt-get source libgadu-dev
cd ekg-1.6+20060616

Insert new changelog entry

Code:

dch -iDdapper

Code:

ekg (1:1.6+20060616-2ubuntu1) dapper; urgency=low

  * Adopted for Dapper

 -- Firstname Lastname <youralias@yourhost.com>  Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:01:59 +0300

Install required build-time dependencies

Code:

sudo aptitude install libncurses-dev libreadline5-dev zlib1g-dev python-dev libgsm1-dev libssl-dev libglib2.0-dev libjpeg62-dev libaspell-dev

Build and install

Code:

dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc
sudo dpkg -i ../libgadu*.deb

gaim

Add Debian experimental repository to /etc/apt/sources.list

Code:

deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian experimental main contrib non-free

Update sources
Code:
```
sudo aptitude update
```

Get the source package

Code:

mkdir -p ~/packages/gaim
cd ~/packages/gaim
apt-get source gaim
cd gaim-2.0.0+beta3

Insert new changelog entry

Code:

dch -iDdapper

Code:

gaim (1:2.0.0+beta3-5ubuntu1) dapper; urgency=low

  * Adopted for Dapper

 -- Firstname Lastname <youralias@yourhost.com>  Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:10:05 +0300

Edit debian/control file and remove version requirement from cdbs which is on Build-Depends line

Install required build-time dependencies

Code:

sudo aptitude install libgtk2.0-dev libxss-dev libmeanwhile-dev libgnutls11-dev tcl8.4-dev tk8.4-dev libao-dev libaudiofile-dev libgtkspell-dev libltdl3-dev libperl-dev libstartup-notification0-dev libzephyr-dev libxml2-dev libebook1.2-dev libedata-book1.2-dev libcamel1.2-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libavahi-compat-howl-dev libxml-parser-perl

Build and install

Code:

dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc
sudo dpkg -i ../gaim_2.0.0+beta3-5ubuntu1_i386.deb ../gaim-data_2.0.0+beta3-5ubuntu1_all.deb

Removing the build dependencies

If you installed debfoster as suggested in the beginning, you can now remove all build dependencies.
Answer p (as purge) for all questions regarding to applications and libraries installed on build process.
Code:
```
sudo debfoster
```
Remove/comment Debian source repositories from /etc/apt/sources.list