Ubuntu Edgy Eft comes with Gaim 2.0.0 beta 3.1. Anyway, Gaim 2.0.0 beta 4 has just released. There is no official update yet. I found many threads in Ubuntu Forums discussing about unofficial deb of beta 4. For example, cookbook, beta 4, and beta 4 deb. There seems to have workable deb for Edgy Eft. However, I don't like anyone of them because most of them were built by checkinstall or Debian source package. So I decided to build one myself by modifying from Gaim 2.0.0 beta 3.1.

First of all, I obtained the source package of beta 3.1 using apt-get.

apt-get source gaim

Then I downloaded gaim-2.0.0beta4.tar.gz, extracted, renamed, and rearchived.

tar xzvf gaim-2.0.0beta4.tar.gz
mv gaim-2.0.0beta4 gaim-2.0.0+beta4
tar czvf gaim_2.0.0+beta4.orig.tar.gz gaim-2.0.0+beta4

After that I applied the diff of beta 3.1 to this tree.

cd gaim-2.0.0+beta4
zcat ../gaim_2.0.0+beta3.1-1ubuntu9.diff.gz | patch -p1

And then modified debian/changelog to have new non-maintainer version using dch.

dch -n "beta 4"

Next I did was to build the package.

debuild -uc -us -rfakeroot

Unfortunately, the patches in debian/patches were inapplicable to beta 4. I have to rediff all patches again. Eventually, I have the source and the diff for beta 4 again. If you are interesting in Gaim 2.0.0 beta 4, you might want to try my packages.

• gaim_2.0.0+beta4-1ubuntu1.2_i386.deb
• gaim-data_2.0.0+beta4-1ubuntu1.2_all.deb
• gaim-dev_2.0.0+beta4-1ubuntu1.2_i386.deb
• gaim-dbg_2.0.0+beta4-1ubuntu1.2_i386.deb

Tags: ubuntu, edgy eft, gaim