Running a development version of Gramps

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The following describes one possible scenario for getting the latest development version of Gramps running:

  • install a recent version of Ubuntu (eg. 7.10) or some other linux distribution. Here we will assume Ubuntu and give the install commands (apt-get) for that distribution
(Beyond the scope of this article, but VirtualBox and VMWare provide a great and relatively easy solution to getting an independent and/or clean build environment.)
  • install some basic build tools
sudo apt-get install build-essential
  • install a text editor if you plan on modifying the Gramps source. You can use Gedit, kate, or dedicated software like sourcenav (sudo apt-get sourcenav), erik4, SPE or even Eclipse with python plugin. Follow the Programming Guidelines.
  • create a directory for the Gramps source
cd ~
mkdir gramps
cd gramps
  • get the latest copy of GRAMPS
sudo apt-get install subversion
svn co https://gramps.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gramps/trunk
  • get ready to build GRAMPS
cd trunk
./autogen.sh
  • if you get a failure about gnome-common, install it:
sudo apt-get install gnome-common
./autogen.sh
  • if you get a failure about glib-gettext.m4, install it:
sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev
./autogen.sh
  • build GRAMPS
make
  • run Gramps
python2.5 src/gramps.py

At this point, any time you want to update to the latest version of Gramps, simply run:

cd ~/gramps/trunk
svn update
python2.5 src/gramps.py

It might happen constants have been changed, and you obtain an error on the const.py module. In that case, rerun autogen.sh and the make command.