About libgnomeprint packages for Maemo

Well, it's been quite some time that people ask me about the sources of libgnomeprint for Maemo platform. I thought it would be a better idea if I wrote a post about it, like a HowTo. This way it can benefit everyone interested in porting applications, specially GNOME apps, that depends on this lib. With some few commands and we have the packages ready-to-install in Maemo platform. The packages were generated using Ubuntu Hoary.

1. Set up the environment
   First of all we need to create a new directory somewhere in our home to store the sources. For this example it was named 'projects'.
   

   edulima@dosmtc19:~$ mkdir projects
   edulima@dosmtc19:~$ cd projects
   edulima@dosmtc19:~/projects$



2. Find libgnomeprintui dependencies
   For this task we use the following command outside scratchbox:
   

   edulima@edulima:~/projects$ apt-cache depends libgnomeprintui2.2-0
   libgnomeprintui2.2-0
     Depends: libart-2.0-2
     Depends: libatk1.0-0
     Depends: libc6
     Depends: libglib2.0-0
     Depends: libgnomecanvas2-0
     Depends: libgnomeprint2.2-0
     Depends: libgnomeprintui2.2-common
     Depends: libgtk2.0-0
     Depends: libpango1.0-0
     Depends: libxml2
     Depends: zlib1g
   edulima@edulima:~/projects$

   
   The dependencies marked with a strike are the ones already installed in Maemo platform. One alternative to find out which are these packages is to execute some 'dpkg -S' commands inside scratchbox.



3. Download the sources
   Having the package dependency list, we use another 'apt' command:
   

   edulima@dosmtc19:~/projects$ apt-get source libgnomeprintui2.2-0 > libgnomeprint2.2-0 libgnomecanvas2-0 libart-2.0-2
   Reading package lists... Done
   Building dependency tree... Done
   ... (after some time)
   edulima@dosmtc19:~/projects$



4. Copy the 'projects' directory inside scratchbox
   An easy way to do this is to copy the directory to /tmp first, start scratchbox and then copy the directory from /tmp.
   

   edulima@dosmtc19:~/projects$ cd ..
   edulima@dosmtc19:~$ cp -r projects/ /tmp/
   edulima@dosmtc19:~$ scratchbox
   ...
   [sbox-1.1: ~] > cd projects
   [sbox-1.1: ~/projects] >



5. Build the packages
   We have to follow the dependency order here. For this example, is the order is libart-lgpl-2.3.17, libgnomecanvas-2.10.0, libgnomeprint-2.10.3 and finally libgnomeprintui-2.10.2. Following this order, we just cd to each one of these directories and then type a 'dpkg-buildpackage' command, for example:
   
   

   [sbox-1.1: ~/projects] > cd libart-lgpl-2.3.17
   [sbox-1.1: ~/projects/libart-lgpl-2.3.17] > dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc -D
   ...

   
   Each package will be created inside the 'projects' directory.



6. Finally, install the packages
   After generating all the packages you can install them using the old and well known dpkg command:
   

   [sbox-1.1: ~/projects] > fakeroot dpkg --install *.deb


That's it. If you are interested in gnomeprint packages but do not have much time to reproduce all the steps above, I have uploaded the packages I built for i386 and arm targets to my web space. Download them here.