Re: [Varnamproject-discuss] Lowering dependencies of libvarnam-ibus to support old distributions

[Navaneeth K N]

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Hello Sooraj,

I just tested on Debian Wheezy (a fresh install) and everything works as
expected. No issues with dependencies.

Here is what I did,

- - Install `cmake` using package manager

- - Install `libvarnam` by downloading the source package from
savannah[1]. `make && sudo make install`

- - Install IBus using package manager.

- - Install `libibus-1.0-dev, libglib2.0-dev` packages using package manager

- - Download latest `libvarnam-ibus`, and run `cmake . && make && sudo
make install`

- - Restart the ibus daemon and you will have Varnam listed under
Malayalam language.

That's all it should take. If you find it complicated than the above
steps, let me know. I will update `libvarnam-ibus` documentation with
the above steps.

This can be simplified by providing packages for `libvarnam-ibus` so
that you don't have to install cmake and development packages.

[1]:
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/varnamproject/libvarnam/source/

On 8/7/14 12:11 PM, Navaneeth K N wrote:
> Hello Sooraj,
> 
> I rechecked the dependencies that `libvarnam-ibus` has and it looks fine
> to me. It depends on IBus >= 1.3. I have tested this on Ubuntu 12.04LTS.
> I got the following
> 
> ~/projects/libvarnam-ibus$ dpkg -s ibus
> Package: ibus
> Status: install ok installed
> Priority: optional
> Section: utils
> Installed-Size: 1056
> Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <address@hidden>
> Architecture: amd64
> Version: 1.4.1-3ubuntu1
> 
> ~/projects/libvarnam-ibus$ dpkg -s libibus-1.0-dev
> Package: libibus-1.0-dev
> Status: install ok installed
> Multi-Arch: same
> Priority: optional
> Section: libdevel
> Installed-Size: 1250
> Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <address@hidden>
> Architecture: amd64
> Source: ibus
> Version: 1.4.1-3ubuntu1
> 
> From the above it is clear that it uses IBus 1.4.1 in Ubuntu 12.04LTS
> and `varnam` works fine with this version.
> 
> As per this page[1], Debian Wheezy uses `ibus (1.4.1-9+deb7u1)` where
> varnam should work fine. Let me know what you think.
> 
> [1]: https://packages.debian.org/stable/utils/ibus
> 
> 

- -- 
Cheers,
Navaneeth
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