Running a development version of Gramps

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The following describes one possible scenario for building and running the latest development version of GRAMPS on Ubuntu:

  • Install a recent version of Ubuntu. The steps in this document have been tested with Ubuntu 7.04, 7.10, 8.04, 10.04 and 10.10.
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Note

It is beyond the scope of this document, but VirtualBox and VMWare provide a great and relatively easy solution to getting a clean build environment up and running within 30 minutes.

sudo apt-get install build-essential gnome-common libglib2.0-dev subversion
  • Create a directory for the Gramps source:
cd ~
mkdir gramps
cd gramps
  • Get the latest version of GRAMPS:
svn co https://gramps.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gramps/trunk
  • Get ready to build GRAMPS:
cd trunk
./autogen.sh
  • Build GRAMPS:
make
  • Run Gramps:
python 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
python src/gramps.py

If some of the GRAMPS constants have changed and you obtain an error in const.py, rerun the commands autogen.sh and make.