Getting started with Kubuntu development.

[patfla]

Re: Getting started with Kubuntu development.

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... and got Quicken working within wine (seemed messy but was do-able) so I feel optimistic about switching my main desktop to kubuntu.
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Just curious, have you looked at KMyMoney as a replacement for Quicken? You can import QIF and QFX files, among others.

I don't use quicken because I like it. Will check out KMyMoney. thanx.

[patfla]

Re: Getting started with Kubuntu development.

I got sort of hung up on the

debuild -S

part where gpg (the last step in debuild) can't find your private key. This web page helped:

http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnu...ry/027802.html

Gpg (as called by debuild) wants to look up the private key with some (I guess) implicit public key information and
the mapping doesn't work. Or it didn't for me.

One can find the gpg keys with

gpg --list-key
gpg --list-secret-key

then you plug the proper value into, say:

sudo debuild -k1234ABCD -S

and the package will get signed.

You can simply cat the .dsc file to the screen and if you see the PGP block at the bottom, presumably the package
is signed.

Onwards and upwards.

But since part of my goal is to switch to Linux as my desktop also spent a little time getting my iPod to work.
Which isn't a big deal but was one more thing I needed to check off the list. I don't need the iTunes store yet
(a lot of what I listen to these days is free spoken word) so for simply seeing what's on your iPod and transferring
tracks, Rhythmbox works quite well.

[GreyGeek]

Re: Getting started with Kubuntu development.

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So what is brasero anyway?

alt-f2 (run) brasero. It's for burning CDs and such. What does Help | About tell me? My installed version is 2.30.1 so the code I'm trying build from the instructions (a combination of 0.5.2 and 0.6.1) seems to be very old.

And, it is built using GTK+, which is another FOSS API for Linux (and Windows, too), but unlike Qt4, which can be complete installed from one sdk file, GTK+ depends on (the last time I counted) six different projects in order to create an integrated development environment. Each GTK+ release depends upon specific versions of the projects which make up that API and not all of them seem to be on the same page at the same time, so you may run into cases where a developer employs a version of a components which is more recent that any you find in the repositories.