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Markus Gratis
Asked: 2016-01-08 00:05:11 +0800 CST

How To Run Program, installed from source

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To give you a little background: I am currently running on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and want to use the application pan newsreader. Unfortunately if I install that via the Ubuntu Software Center, I get pan 0.139-2, which crashes, when I run it.

[GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name news.pan.NZB
was not provided by any .service files
**
ERROR:pan-tree.cc:80:GtkTreeIter PanTreeStore::get_iter(const
PanTreeStore::Row*): assertion failed: (row)
Aborted (core dumped)]

So I decided to install a development build from source code.

So I went: git clone git://git.gnome.org/pan2

and after some problems I got ./autogen.sh; make to work. I rebooted several times in between these things and now the application seems to be set up properly.

The executable to open should be /pan2/pan/gui/pan.

I tried *rightclick run, but nothing opened. If I enter pan in the terminal, I am told to download pan 0.139-2 (The version that crashes). Due to lack of understanding basically how a computer works, I then went: cd ~/pan2/pan/gui and then entered ./pan.run, which I read up somewhere on the internet, but it said there was no such file in that directory.

Every advice is greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Gratis

gnome-terminal

2 Answers

  1. @Olimjon: You were right; i did not yet do make install, because i thought the ;make before did that, but anyway.

    And Takkat was right, too. After that I got the same error.

    Now I want to install version 0.139-0 as you did. The easiest way to do that seems to be: How to downgrade packages on Ubuntu?

    Unfortunately I only have version 0.139-2 in my repositories. Which repositories do I have to add to be able to install version 0.139-0?

    Thanks to everyone!

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  2. you must get build-essentials ,gcc and cmake packages first.

    sudo apt-get updat && sudo apt-get install -y build-essential gcc cmake

    after that , goto the program directory you have excuated , and write

    sudo cmake configurationfilename

    and then

    sudo make

    sudo make install

    best regards,

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