Comments on: Installing GNOME Shell in Ubuntu Intrepid

By: Kais Bejaoui

Kais Bejaoui — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:06:58 +0000

Thank you RainCT for the quick reply. Deleting that folder did solve the problem.

I also needed the following packages due to missing dependencies (you should probably add them to the list):

python2.6-dev
libgnome-desktop-dev
libgnome-menu-dev

now everything works. I am really impressed by the new interface !!

By: RainCT

RainCT — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:23:48 +0000

@ Kais:
Try deleting that directory and running “jhbuild build” again. If it still fails, maybe ask on IRC (#gnome-shell at irc.gimp.net), that’s where the developers hang around.

By: Kais Bejaoui

Kais Bejaoui — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:18:38 +0000

Hello,

Thanks for the tutorial, but I encountered a problem in step 4/7 of the ~/bin/jhbuild build command :

git fetch
git stash save jhbuild-build
fatal: bad revision ‘HEAD’
fatal: bad revision ‘HEAD’
fatal: Needed a single revision
You do not have the initial commit yet
*** error during stage checkout of gconf: ########## Error running git stash save jhbuild-build *** [4/7]

I verified that the folder ~/gnome-shell/source/gconf is indeed empty.

Does anyone have an idea about what might the problem be ?

P.S : I am using ubuntu 9.04 with all deps installed.

By: Mohammad Farzan Hussain

Mohammad Farzan Hussain — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:18:58 +0000

Amazing. Thanks for sharing. I’ll try this.

By: Gert

Gert — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:45:22 +0000

No, it doesn’t.
The error show up when I try “jhbuild shell”

If I launch gnome-shell with Xephyr all it’s ok (slow, horrible but running in the Xephyr window), if I use –replace the pc hangs and I need an hard reboot. Using ubuntu 8.10 and re-built with jhbuild build –clean –force just an hour ago.

By: Greg K Nicholson

Greg K Nicholson — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 05:55:17 +0000

Ah! Second time round I didn’t even get the error, and it worked. Thanks.

By: RainCT

RainCT — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:08:59 +0000

Greg, Gert: Does it still work, though? That message shouldn’t be a problem.

By: Gert

Gert — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:59:19 +0000

I got the same problem (Ubuntu 8.10)

By: Greg K Nicholson

Greg K Nicholson — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:10:27 +0000

On Ubuntu 8.10 I get:

$ ~/bin/jhbuild shell
I: unknown keys defined in configuration file: libdir

Any ideas?

By: Sarah Bolopski

Sarah Bolopski — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:57:50 +0000

Yeah this works great on my ubuntu. I’d recommend to anyone else. Thanks for the information.

By: xiangxianni

xiangxianni — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:35:01 +0000

Thanks for this good post.I will try it in my ubuntu

By: MadsRH

MadsRH — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:04:05 +0000

Great! Thanks for sharing. I’ve been wanting to check it out ever since I heard that work had begun.

//MadsRH

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By: redox

redox — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 10:44:13 +0000

Merci RainCT!

Quan tingui una mica de temps ho provaré :P