Re: Loading and average PGM files

[Laurent Hoeltgen]

On 06/18/2012 04:52 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 18 June 2012 09:37, Carnë Draug <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I have made this recently, so here's some instructinos how to do it.
>> You'll have to download GraphicsMagick source and when running
>> configure, use the following options
>>
>> ./configure --prefix=${HOME}/.usr --enable-shared --disable-static
>> --with-quantum-depth=16
> 
> A more Debianish way (and therefore Ubuntuish way, I guess) reusing
> the existing .deb packaging goes something like this:
> 
>     1) Add a source package location for your existing packages. Edit
>     /etc/apt/sources.list and add corresponding deb-src lines for
>     every line you see (just copy the deb lines but replace deb with
>     deb-src in the copy). This might already be done.
> 
>     2) Get the source package for graphicsmagick:
> 
>         apt-get source graphicsmagick
> 
>     3) Get the build dependencies for graphicsmagick:
> 
>         sudo apt-get install build-dep graphicsmagick
> 
>     4) Edit debian/rules around where you see the ./configure line and
>     add an option for --with-quantum-depth=16.
> 
>     4a) Optionally, you might also want to edit debian/changelog with
>     a personalised version number and log entry in order to remind you
>     later that you built this package yourself. If you do this, follow
>     the format of other changelog entries, since the Debian build
>     system must parse this changelog.
> 
>     5) Build the package. Standing in the graphicsmagick directory
>     (one above the debian/ directory), do
> 
>         dpkg-buildpackage
> 
>     6) Install the resulting .deb files one directory above with the
>     command
> 
>         sudo dpkg -i foo.deb
> 
>     Note that this builds a bunch of .deb files (9 on my system). You
>     might not want to install all, but be careful about their
>     interdependencies. Personally, I did
> 
>         sudo dpkg -i lib*.deb
> 
> The advantage of this is that you can reuse the existing .deb
> infrastructure to build and track your package. Also, Carnë's
> instructions further below are unnecessary, since they pertain to
> having two conflicting versions of the graphicsmagick library
> installed. Also, if for whatever reason this fails, you can use apt to
> revert to the packaged version in Ubuntu's repositories.
> 
> Following the same instructions as above, but without modifying
> anything in the Octave package, you will also have to rebuild the
> Octave package. If you use this PPA as your deb-src to get the source
> package, you will be able to rebuild the current 3.6.2 Octave release:
> 
>     https://launchpad.net/~dr-graef/+archive/octave-3.6
> 

Just out of curiosity, the above above link points to a ppa for octave
3.6.2 for natty (ubuntu 11.04) and for precise (ubuntu 12.04). Is there
some ppa with octave 3.6.2 for oneiric (e.g. ubuntu 11.10)?

Regards,
Laurent