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[Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi James,

I have done it once (for 'normal' amd64), under close supervision! Someone
like Jonathan or Julien would be best placed to answer what would need to
be installed (or point to the documentation). From memory, you need the
gcc-devel package plus others.

Regards,

Phill.

On 27 May 2013 17:52, James King <jlking3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Phil, I don't recall ever compiling something in my life, but I'd be
> willing to try if it would help. What do I need to install and what steps
> would I need to do?
>
>
> On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> F.Y.I. an update on Xombrero. It appears that a it should build on PPC if
>> there is someone with a PPC machine capable of building (and know how to !).
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Phill.
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Luis Henriques <henrix@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: 26 May 2013 19:05
>> Subject: Re: Xombrero
>> To: Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>
>> Hi Phill,
>>
>>
>> Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>> > Hi Luis,
>> >
>> > just as an update, following on from a couple of bug reports Julien (our
>> > head of dev) is going to get the most recent xombrero onto the
>> > 'un-official' [1] hopefully in the next few days. Have you had any luck
>> > with getting it sponsored for debian? As a completely mad request, is
>> there
>> > any chance of making a ppc version of it? It has been asked for, so I
>> did
>> > promise to at least ask :)
>>
>> Sorry for not giving you more news on this before.  So, the current
>> status is that xombrero has been rejected because there were a couple
>> of licensing issues that I still have to clarify.  (xombrero is a
>> nightmare regarding licensing... there's a huge mix of different
>> licenses).
>>
>> As usual, I didn't have too much free time to handle these issues, but
>> I didn't gave up getting xombrero into Debian repositories.
>>
>> Regarding the powerpc version, what are exactly the issues you're
>> having?  I didn't tried it, but I would expect it to compile cleanly
>> in this architecture.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --
>> Luis
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Phill.
>> >
>> > 1. https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-dev/+archive/non-official-apps
>> >
>> > On 1 March 2013 10:35, Luis Henriques <henrix@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi Phill,
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 09:20:20PM +0000, Phill Whiteside wrote:
>> >> > Hi Henrix,
>> >> >
>> >> > A quick introduction, I'm the team leader for lubuntu-quality. As
>> lubuntu
>> >> > is a 'low resource' based system, for the lowest specification
>> machines
>> >> > that do not have the resources for a 'full blown' browser, we have
>> >> > recommended xxxterm. This is in the ubuntu repositories, but is quite
>> >> aged.
>> >> > In order to get xombrero into them, it seems it must first be
>> accepted
>> >> into
>> >> > the debian repos. If there is any testing you need for xombrero,
>> please
>> >> do
>> >> > get in touch with us. It's much easier to exchange emails if you
>> apply
>> >> for
>> >> > membership of the lubuntu-qa team[1], as once it is approved it
>> means the
>> >> > admins of this team do not have to manually approve each email you
>> send.
>> >>
>> >> I've been trying to get xombrero into debian for a while but real-life
>> >> has prevented me to succeed.  But its been a looong time since I've
>> >> last tried to package it and I definitely willing to do that.
>> >>
>> >> So, I will try to work on that during the weekend and contact my usual
>> >> debian sponsor to review and eventually upload it.  I'll keep you on
>> >> the loop and let you know about the progress.
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >> --
>> >> Luis
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > Assuming that you do apply for membership of the team (which will be
>> >> > rapidly approved) and use the lubuntu-quality email list, please
>> >> > prefix the subject line Xombrero so that those who are interested in
>> >> > it can instantly see what the subject matter is about.
>> >> >
>> >> > Regards,
>> >> >
>> >> > Phill.
>> >> > 1. https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa
>> >> >
>> >> > --
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>> >>
>>
>>
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