[Users] Claws Mail 3.15.1 and Ubuntu 16.04LTS

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 09:35:10 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 09:27:22 -0300, J. Paul Bissonnette wrote:
>>Is there a PPA or something that would make this version compatible
>>with Ubuntu 16.04LTS? I tried to install the deb and ended with a long
>>list of incompatibilities.  

I forgot to mention that for you the claws runtime dependencies were
likely installed automatically, when you installed claws, so the
package management might recommend to remove those dependencies, but
they are also needed for the claws-mail-git package, so consider to do
the following before doing anything else.

sudo apt autoremove                                # to remove all unneeded packages
sudo apt remove claws-mail [and the snipped list]  # then
sudo apt autoremove --dry-run                      # copy  the list of packages
sudo apt-mark manual [list of packages]            # paste the list of packages

>To get all required build dependencies you could install them manually,
>as I usually do, or seemingly by running
>
>sudo apt update
>sudo apt full-upgrade
>sudo apt build-dep claws-mail # which on my system would install a
>library for raising indicators via DBus + dev package, but I build
>without installing those two packages
>                              # however, it should install all
> dependencies to build the version provided by the repositories #
> building a newer release from git might require additional
> dependencies
>sudo apt install auto-apt     # I never used auto-apt myself, it seems
>to know what to do, if additional dependencies should be required sudo
>auto-apt updatedb sudo auto-apt update-local
>sudo apt remove claws-mail claws-mail-acpi-notifier
>claws-mail-address-keeper claws-mail-archiver-plugin
>claws-mail-attach-remover [snip] claws-mail-fancy-plugin
>                              # remove all Ubuntu packages, since we
> just build one package # likely the packages for 16.04 are the same
> as shown on the left side of the Debian tracker #
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/claws-mail , so a copy and paste
> should work # but you likely need to add claws-mail-fancy-plugin to
> this list # #
> cd /into/a/directory/where/you/want/to/build/claws-mail-git
>git clone git://git.claws-mail.org/claws.git
>cd claws/
>git pull --all                # alternatively: git checkout 404c674
>                              # see
> http://git.claws-mail.org/?p=claws.git;a=shortlog , I'll use 'git
> pull --all' to build the latest
>make clean
>./autogen.sh
>
>./configure --build=$(uname -m)-ubuntu-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr
>--disable-jpilot --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-manual
>--disable-static --enable-bogofilter-plugin --enable-crash-dialog
>--enable-enchant --enable-gnutls --enable-ldap --enable-pgpmime-plugin
>--enable-silent-rules --enable-spamassassin-plugin
>                              # AFAIK you could replace './confifure
> [snip]' with 'sudo auto-apt ./confifure [snip]' if additional
> dependencies should be required
>sh version                    # copy the output to the clipboard
>make                          # AFAIK you could replace 'make' with
>'sudo auto-apt make', too sudo checkinstall             # 0 -
>Maintainer: [ Foo <foo at bar.com> ]
>                              # 1 -  Summary: [ A GTK+ based e-mail
> client - git checkout ] # 2 -  Name:    [ claws-mail-git ]
>                              # 3 -  Version: [ 3.15.0-72-gbd6cfc ]  #
> replace the version with the output you copied from 'sh version' #
> it's just the last version I build and successfully used with 16.04 #
> 4 -  Release: [ 1 ] # 5 -  License: [ GPL3 ]
>                              # 6 -  Group:   [ checkinstall ]
>                              # 7 -  Architecture: [ amd64 ]
>                              # 8 -  Source location: [ claws ]
>                              # 9 -  Alternate source location: [  ]
>                              # 10 - Requires: [  ]
>                              # 11 - Provides: [ claws-mail ]
>                              # 12 - Conflicts: [  ]
>                              # 13 - Replaces: [  ]                  #
> I didn't add anything to all those empty '[  ]'
>
>Today I likely will build latest commit for Arch Linux and Ubuntu 16.04
>myself.
>
>Regards,
>Ralf