ANNOUNCE: thunar 1.5.2 released

Sergio sergiocmailbox-xfce at yahoo.com.br
Thu Nov 15 20:01:35 CET 2012


On 11/15/2012 02:57 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 1:55 AM, Maximilien Noal
> <noal.maximilien at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 15/11/2012 07:01, Paul Johnson wrote:
>>>
>>> Good Morning:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>>
>>> If I compile a newer exo, will everything else in XFCE4 break?
>>
>>
>> I have the latest exo [1] and thunar [2] built from the AUR on Archlinux,
>> and it didn't break anything of the rest of my Xfce 4.10 installation.
>>
>> I doubt it will break a Xfce 4.8 environment either, but I can't test that.
>>
>> Just my 2 cents.
>>
> Thanks. I'll keep trying. Perhaps it is truly a dependency hell and I
> need to wait for a Debian release of everything.
>
> Trying to compile evo, look what happens:
>
> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
> checking for libxfce4util-1.0 >= 4.9.0... found, but 4.8.2
> *** The required package libxfce4util-1.0 was found on your system,
> *** but the installed version (4.8.2) is too old.
> *** Please upgrade libxfce4util-1.0 to atleast version 4.9.0, or adjust
> *** the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you installed
> *** the new version of the package in a nonstandard prefix so
> *** pkg-config is able to find it.
>
> I know how to build packages and  used to use Ubuntu in the past, and
> remembered their launchpad system. So I took a detour so see if I
> could get their packaging and just rebuild it on Debian wheezy.  It is
> turning into a hassle though.
>
> Then,I go to build libxfce4util,  and I found out it requires
> libxfce4ui_4.10.0., and building that, I find it requires
> libxfconf-0-dev (>= 4.10.0). These requirements may or may not be
> truly necessary, but they are marked in the Ubuntu packaging, anyway.
>
> Because I'm compulsive, I'm going to keep trying. But I wish somebody
> would solve all this for me and just give me the packages.
>
> I've admired the documentation provided on the Archlinux site, maybe I
> should give that distribution a try.
>
> pj
>
>> [1] exo-devel 0.9.1: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20765
>> [2] thunar-devel 1.5.2: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20771
>>
  I think Xfce 4.10 is in experimental. If so you could install it and 
then start from there for Thunar.



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