Re: [Pan-users] Stupid question

[Evan Morris]

Something's wrong:

Package git is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package git has no installation candidate



On 09/23/2011 08:14 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 09/23/2011 07:04 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On 09/23/2011 06:01 PM, Evan Morris wrote:
> > > I've found 0.135 at
> > > http://pan.rebelbase.com/download/releases/0.135/source/, but I have no
> > > idea of how to install it. I'm using Ubuntu 10.04.
> > >
> > > Anyone having a slow afternoon and want to craft an explanation for the
> > > truly clueless?
> >
> > Use the git repository instead.
> >
> > $ sudo apt-get update
> > $ sudo apt-get install git build-essential libgmime-2.4-dev
> > $ sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev libgtkspell-dev
> > $ mkdir ~/source
> > $ cd ~/source
> > $ git clone git://github.com/judgefudge/pan2
>
> Left a step out:
> $ cd pan2
>
> > $ ./autogen.sh
> > $ make
> > $ sudo make install
> >
> > You're most likely to trip up on having the autogen complain that you're
> > missing some dependencies.
>
> Install them and rerun the autogen.  Will take you a few iterations 
> the first time you build pan.