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Fri, 19 Oct 2007

Gutsy package for Miro status

Here's the current state of Miro on Gutsy:

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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Comments:

Posted by repustech on Sun Oct 21 16:34:07 2007
I'm really looking forward to the new Miro version for Gutsy. I seem to have some bugs with the included release.


Posted by boddah on Wed Oct 24 04:42:40 2007
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?


Posted by wguaraldi on Wed Oct 24 09:52:41 2007
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.


Posted by foxy on Wed Oct 31 06:38:42 2007
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.


Posted by wguaraldi on Fri Nov 2 12:46:38 2007
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.


Posted by John Eckman on Sat Nov 3 13:02:19 2007
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.


Posted by wguaraldi on Sat Nov 3 14:32:01 2007
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.


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