Wolfmans Howlings

Getting beagle compiled on KUbuntu 6.10 edgy

Posted by Jim Morris on Sat Feb 03 22:32:35 -0800 2007

The version of beagle available as a standard package with Ubuntu Edgy 6.10, is horribly buggy and uses a lot of memory (2Gbytes on my machine).

I wanted to build the latest version of Beagle (0.2.15.1) on my system which is actually KUbuntu, and this required a lot of effort! I had to install a bunch of added support libraries for gtk which do not appear to be installed by default on KUbuntu. I downloaded the latest source from here.

Here is a list of what I installed using sudo aptitude install many are suggested here the rest I discovered by trial and error.

libmono-sharpzip2.84-cil
mono 
mono-devel
libmono-dev
libgdiplus
libxml-parser-perl
libsqlite0
libsqlite0-dev
libexif12
libexif-dev
shared-mime-info
libgmime2
libgmime2-dev
gtk-sharp2
libgmime1
libgmime-2.0-2-dev
libgmime2.2-cil
libbeagle0
libmono-sqlite1.0-cil
mono-gmcs
mono-classlib-2.0
gnome-vfs-extfs
libgnome-vfs-dev
libxml2-dev
libgconf2-dev
libbonobo2-dev
libbz2-dev
fam
libfam-dev
libgnomevfs2-dev
libgnome2-dev
libgtk2.0-dev
librsvg2-dev
python-gtk2-dev
gnome-sharp2 
gtk-sharp

It turned out that the installed version of mono is not high enough to build the latest version of beagle, so I installed the latest version of mono manually into /opt/mono. You can get it here, I got the Generic Mono 1.2.2.1_1 Linux installer from here.

To use this the following exports need to be done, usually in ~/.bashrc

export GTK2_RC_FILES=$HOME/.gtkrc-2.0
export PATH="/opt/mono/mono-1.2.2.1/bin:$PATH"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/opt/mono/mono-1.2.2.1/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"
export MANPATH="/opt/mono/mono-1.2.2.1/share/man:$MANPATH"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/mono/mono-1.2.2.1/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"

Additionally I needed to do this...

export MONO_PATH=/opt/mono/mono-1.2.2.1/lib/:/opt/mono/mono-1.2.2.1/lib/mono/gtk-sharp-2.0:/usr/lib/cli/gmime-sharp-2.2:/usr/lib/cli/gsf-sharp-0.0 

when I got a bunch of build errors, and run errors, presumably from mono.

I am not a c sharp programmer, and know nothing about mono, so I am not sure why these search paths are needed, but they are.

After all the above you can use the standard...

./configure
make
sudo make install

to build and install beagle.

I also turned on extended attributes on my ext3 partition as explained here.

Then run beagle (making sure the above export is done first otherwise it uses the wrong version of mono and can't find some of the mono libraries.)

As far as I can see it is now running and indexing my disk, and the memory usage is pretty low, and the cpu usage is tolerable.

If anyone can add good explanations please do so in the comments section.

UPDATE This recipe also works with beagle 0.2.16