To check out the CPP branch of Linux Whiteboard -which the dependencies below mostly apply to- issue the following command:

svn checkout http://linux-whiteboard.googlecode.com/svn/branches/cpp/ linux-whiteboard-read-only

To build whiteboard, you'll need the usual toolchain (gcc, g++ and make - these are available in the build-essential package) and the following libraries. The names of the libraries are taken from Ubuntu's database. If you're using a different Linux distro, please change them according to yours:

• libtool
• libcwiid1-dev
• libgtkmm-2.4-dev
• libglademm-2.4-dev
• libxtst-dev
• libcairomm-1.0-dev
• libsigc++-2.0-dev
• libgnome2-dev
• intltool
• libbluetooth-dev

If you have checked out whiteboard from our SVN repository, you probably need those too:

• autoconf
• automake

Having gotten those installed, navigate to the program's root directory and issue the following commands:

./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install

For Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon users, you need to add CXXFLAGS="-DCOMPATIBILITY_GUTSY" to autogen.sh like this:

./autogen.sh CXXFLAGS="-DCOMPATIBILITY_GUTSY"

To install to a different directory, so that you don't need root permission when installing, add --prefix=<path-to-desired-install-dir> like this:

./autogen --prefix=~/whiteboard

After 'make install', whiteboard will be installed to the directory 'whiteboard' in your home directory.

To build a Debian/Ubuntu package (for Ubuntu Hardy Heron only, one needs to modify the 'debian' directory to account for version differences in other distros):

• Install fakeroot if you haven't got it already.
• Issue these commands:

./autogen.sh
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -b -rfakeroot