Gutsy package for Miro status
Posted by Will Kahn-Greene
Here’s the current state of Miro on Gutsy:
- we don’t have a Gutsy package of Miro for 0.9.9.1 (the current release)
- Gutsy does work with what will become Miro 0.9.9.9 (the very soon-to-be released release)
The first Miro version we plan on supporting for Gutsy is 0.9.9.9 which will be released soon–probably in the next week if all goes well. We have been testing with Gutsy over the last month and we have instructions for building Miro on Gutsy in Trac. I want to emphasize that Miro 0.9.9.9 will work nicely on Gutsy and the primary issue here is a packaging one.
The Gutsy universe repository has a Miro 0.9.8 package in it. I’ve tested it on my Gutsy box and it works for me, however it’s missing a lot of the fixes that we’ve made for 0.9.9.9 which should alleviate problems with Miro and specific video cards. So if it works for you, then that’s great, but if it doesn’t, then you’re going to have to wait until 0.9.9.9.
I plan on making a pass through Bugzilla and make sure any outstanding Gutsy issues are resolved. Additionally, I’ll take a pass through LaunchPad and make sure we catch any bugs that didn’t get reported upstream to us.
We’ll be tagging our repository for 0.9.9.9 rc1 soon–hopefully today and have an rc1 out by tomorrow for Windows and Mac OSX. We’ll get a Gutsy rc1 out as soon as we can, but it’ll probably take a few days.
If you want to help out with testing rc1, let me know and I’ll be sure to point you in the right direction and/or watch the Miro Testing blog.
If you have any problems, please write up a bug in Bugzilla, comment on an existing bug with additional information, and/or hop on #miro on irc.freenode.net and let us know.
If you have any thoughts, please comment here and if the plan changes at all, I’ll post an update.
As an aside, Gutsy is a great Ubuntu release–I’m running it on one of my machines already and look forward to upgrading my other machine.
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October 21st, 2007 at 4:34 pm
I’m really looking forward to the new Miro version for Gutsy. I seem to have some bugs with the included release.
October 24th, 2007 at 4:42 am
Will the build instructions linked above (specifically, for Gutsy), install the app in such a way that it upgrades as usual when new releases become available?
October 24th, 2007 at 9:52 am
boddah: I put the gutsy packages in the gutsy repository. Assuming I built the packages correctly, any time we do a new release for gutsy, Ubuntu’s packaging system will notice it and tell you there’s a new release.
Thanks for asking that question–that’s an important thing to note that I forgot about.
October 31st, 2007 at 6:38 am
There is one big problem: The miro package conflicts with the firefox java plugin, so you can’t use the plugin while miro installed! Hope this will be fixed.
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:46 pm
foxy: Try using the icedtea-java7-plugin. I’ve had several users state that it works for them and it doesn’t cause issues with Miro.
November 3rd, 2007 at 1:02 pm
Seems like the Ubuntu Gutsy package (0.9.9.9-1ubuntupcf) depends on libboost-python1.33.1.
Could it be changed to be dependent on libboost-python >= 1.33.1?
I have 1.34.1, which prevents me from upgrading Miro from the package, though compiled from source it is fine.
November 3rd, 2007 at 2:32 pm
John and I exchanged some email about the libboost-python 1.33.1 issue.
The gist of it is that if you’re running Gutsy but are still using the Feisty repository, this is the issue that you’ll run into. Go into your /etc/apt/sources.list file or use Synaptic to update the repositories and change the repository from feisty to gutsy.