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will be all that is needed for the [httphttps://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ fedoraFedora] distribution. This page details a different method and is for those users wanting an alternative version of grampsGramps, this may be to test a SVN version or to install the latest stable version.

= Development rpm RPM =It may be possible that next to the standard Fedora rpm RPM there's a newer version available for development testing.

Assuming you have an existing version of gramps Gramps installed, you can try to install from the following repositories:

= To build the rpm RPM from source =An alternative approach to installing the binary RPM is to build the package from source, this will build gramps Gramps using the package versions that you have installed. For this, you need the gramps Gramps source kit and a so called '''SPEC''' file. It is usually easiest to download the most recent gramps Gramps source RPM (SRPM) from the Fedora repositories, extract the SPEC file, adjust it for the new version, and try to build a new RPM.

Download the most recent source rpm RPM from the Fedora repository, and install it.

More information on the SPEC file can be found in the next section, 'To build an rpm RPM from SVN'.

In addition to the normal build tools, these additional packages are needed to build the gramps rpmRPM: desktop-file-utils, gettext, perl-XML-Parser, gnome-python2-canvas, gnome-python2-gconf, gnome-vfs2-devel, pygtk2-libglade, python-devel, scrollkeeper, and gnome-doc-utils

= To build an rpm RPM from SVN =

*Some assumptions have been made here, the prime one being that you have any needed devel packages installed, and therefore a system that can actually build from source. If you don't have one - yet - then continue on and hopefully your system will give enough clues so that you can get to the final stage, and build an rpmRPM. ({{man menu|Ah! and please update this page to suit, or notify the mailing list}}).*A secondary assumption is that your happy to install '''over''' your existing gramps Gramps installation? This is the SVN (bleeding edge) package and things may break. The flip side to that problem is that once they're reported they'll be fixed and goodness will prevail!*And with that in mind, '''backup''' your database first. '''Don't work on that which is irreplacableirreplaceable.'''

If this is the first build on this machine then the following installation may be required, to install the build environment in the users directory, as described in the previous section.'''su -c 'yum install rpmdevtools''''

then login as a 'normal' user and run '''rpmdev-setuptree''' . This will silently create The following acts out the 'rpmbuild/' tree in build process for the users home directory (instead of using ''usr/src/redhat''imaginary)8. In addition the dependencies listed above (under 'Problems with the build' need to be installed. Once this is done the gramps build can proceed25 pre-release from SVN.

The following acts out the build process for the 2 svn co https://gramps.2svn.5 presourceforge.net/svnroot/gramps/branches/gramps8 mv gramps8 gramps-release from SVN8.25 && cd gramps-8.25 ./autogen.sh

If this fails with '''svn co httpswhich://gramps.svn.sourceforgeno gnome-autogen.net/svnroot/gramps/branches/gramps22 'sh ''follow the advice and execute

'''mv gramps2 gramps-2.2.5 && cd gramps-2.2.5''' '''./autogen.sh''' If this fails with ''which: no gnome-autogen.sh '' follow the advice and execute ''' su -c 'yum -y install gnome-common''''

The resulting directory now needs to be packaged as gramps-28.2.525.tar.gz

''' cd .. tar cvf - gramps-8.25 | gzip -f9 > gramps-8.25.tar.gz mv gramps-8.25.tar.gz ~/'''rpmbuild/SOURCES/ cd ~rpmbuild/ rpmbuild -bb SPECS/gramps.spec

'''tar cvf - An example gramps-2.2.5 | gzip -f9 > gramps-2spec is shown below.2This one works for 3.50.tar1 on Fedora 8 and 9, it may not work on other versions/releases - whatever.gz If it doesn't see above (ie: don't despair, go looking and try to solve the problem, if you succeed then modify the spec - both yours and the one on this page - to suit. If you don't succeed, then ask as per the suggestion above.)

'''mv gramps-2.2.5.tar.gz /home/<user>/rpmbuild/SOURCES/''' '''cd /home/<user>/rpmbuild/''' '''su -c 'rpmbuild -bb SPECS/gramps.spec'''' where gramps spec is the following file. But first a word about the spec file, this one works for 2.2.4 and 2.2.5 on fedora core 6, it may not work on other versions/releases - whatever. If it doesn't see above (ie: don't despair, go looking and try to solve the problem, if you succeed then modify the spec - both yours and the one on this page - to suit. If you don't succeed, then ask as per the suggestion above.)This spec file is a minor adaption of the one used by the fedora extras maintainers and has been extracted from the source file ''gramps-2.2.410-31.fc7fc9.src.rpm''. There may be It is worth looking for a more up todate to date file in a newer src package?packages, if available.

BuildArch: noarchPackager: Johan Vromans <[email protected]>

BuildRequires: perl(XML::Parser)BuildRequires: gnome-python2-canvasBuildRequires: gnome-python2-gconfBuildRequires: gnome-vfs2-devel

BuildRequires: scrollkeeperlibrsvg2-develBuildRequires: gnome-doc-utils intltool

Requires: gnome-python2-canvaslibrsvg2 Requires: gnome-python2-gconfRequires: gnome-python2-gnomevfsRequires: gnome-python2Requires: gnome-python2-gnomeprintRequires: gnome-python2-gtkspellRequires: ImageMagickRequires: freefont

Requires: python-reportlab graphvizRequires: graphviz xdgutils

System) is a GNOME GTK based genealogy program supporting a Python

To install the succesful successful build,  note the name of the noarch RPM that was written, and pass it to '''su -c 'yum localinstall /home/<user>/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/gramps-2.2.5rpm -1.noarch.rpm'''' or perhaps use localupdate? (see '''man yumivh'''):

'''su sudo rpm -c 'yum localupdate /home/<user>ivh ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/gramps-2.2.5-1ZZZZ.noarch.rpm''''

To bypass the signing process, '''temporarilyZZZZ''' change will be something similar to 8.25-1mine.fc9, depending on the contents actual content of the ''/etc/yum.conf'Version''' to disable (0) the gpgcheck.<pre>#gpgcheck=1gpgcheck=0</pre>and restore '''Release''' definitions from the SPEC file to its original state when finished.