Monday 27 June 2011

Gnome-do Suspend not working in Ubuntu Lucid 10.04

I love Gnome-do, but the version in the Lucid repo stopped at 0.8.3.1 (and 0.8.2.1 for gnome-do-plugins), which had a bug that meant Suspend didn't work (from the Session Management plugin). After noticing this had been fixed in a later version, I resorted to grabbing the latest version of the source code and compiling it myself. This was a surprisingly easy task.

1) Get the dependencies (including Bazaar which you need to download the source code)
sudo apt-get install bzr
sudo apt-get build-dep gnome-do
sudo apt-get build-dep gnome-do-plugins
2) Download the source code
bzr branch lp:do gnome-do
bzr branch lp:do-plugins
3) Install (do this for both of the new directories)
cd gnome-do
./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install
4) Restart gnome-do and enable GNOME Session Management plugin

Note: I actually left the old repo versions installed, in the hope that there may be some dependencies fulfilled. Hopefully this wont cause any headaches in the future (it hasn't so far).

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