Re: Gramps Development setup question

Hi Arnold,

I can't help much with the local build, as I mostly build Debian binary 
packages using the Debian packaging tools in a chroot so I don't mess 
with my system installed gramps.

But in order to work with Debian package sources, you need something 
like the following in your /etc/apt/sources.list file:

deb-srchttp://ftp.debian.org/debian  main

Most Debian based systems are only set up for downloading binary packages by default (something like "debhttp://ftp.debian.org/debian  main"). You need both entries.

Hope that helps.

Ross

On 16.01.2022 21.58, Arnold Wiegert wrote:
> Just installed a VirtualBox Mint environment on my Windows PC, following
> the instructions on
> https://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Running_a_development_version_of_Gramps
>
> FWIW, I am quite new to this environment.
> All looks good, except, when I try to run
>
> *sudo apt-get build-dep gramps*
> all it says:
>
> *Reading package lists ... Done*
> *E: You must put some 'deb-src' URI in your sources list*
>
> When I try to run:
> *python setup.py build *
> it complains:
> ..
>
> *file 'setup.py', line 35 in <module>*
>
> *from distutils import log*
> *Importerror cannot import name 'log' from 'distutils'
> (usr/lib/python3.8/distutils*
>
> When I try to run Gramps with Python3 Gramps.py
> it complains about missing OSMGPSMap
> as well as GEvi2
>
> That latter one is very important for my interest in the metadata handling
> as is the OSMGPS code as it too  is likely part of the metadata handling.
> Any hints, pointer or advice will be very welcome
> Arnold
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