[PD] gem for debian?

[AshK]

On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 13:16:35 +0200
Frank Barknecht <fbar at footils.org> wrote:

> Hallo,
> yukio kuroiwa hat gesagt: // yukio kuroiwa wrote:
> 
> > hello list, im need to try the pix_multiblob object in linux, is
> > there any gem package for debiam that includes it? or do i need to
> > compile gem by myself?
> 
> I don't know, if the official Gem packages for Debian have
> pix_multiblob enabled, as I run the CVS-Gem, but building your own Gem
> on Debian is very easy. First you install the build dependencies with
> apt-get using: 
> 
> $ apt-get build-dep gem

when I do that I get this error : 

Package xlibmesa-glu-dev 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

do I really need it?

> 
> then you either check out Gem from CVS or use the Gem sources in
> Debian (which you can get with "apt-get source gem") and then you use
> the "debian" directory in both to build a custom Debian package with 
> 
> $ cd WHERE_YOU_PUT_GEM
> $ fakeroot debian/rules binary
> $ sudo dpkg -i ../gem*.deb
> 
> You can change any options passed to Gem's configure-script in
> "debian/rules", if you like.
> 
> Ciao