[Freedombox-discuss] UPDATE: Nothing I tried worked.

[A. F. Cano]

Given that one of the users of my gobby server has told me that his old
version 0.4.94 still works, I tried compiling it from source code.  Had
to install: libxml++2.6-dev, libgsasl-dev, libgtkmm-2.4-dev,
libgtksourceview-3.0-dev,  dependencies and suggestions.  The first 3 reduced
the unmet dependencies count, but I'm still missing the dependency
gtksourceview-2.0, which according to this:

https://tracker.debian.org/news/611180/gtksourceview-removed-from-testing/

was removed from testing in 2010.

I also downloaded manually and installed:

sudo dpkg -i libgtksourceview2.0-common_2.10.5-3_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i libgtksourceview2.0-0_2.10.5-3_amd64.deb

This is the result of ./configure

configure: error: Package requirements (libxml++-2.6 glibmm-2.4 >= 2.18.0 giomm-2.4 >= 2.18.0 gthread-2.0 libgsasl >= 0.2.21 gtkmm-2.4 >= 2.12.0 gtksourceview-2.0 >= 2.4) were not met:

No package 'gtksourceview-2.0' found

If someone can suggest what options I might pass to the configure script
to bypass this dependency, I'll give it a try.

Also tried to compile from source version 0.6.0.  This worked but I get
the same certificate error described at the beginning of this thread with
the packaged version.

Then i tried compiling version 0.5.0.  Same result:

configure: error: Package requirements (libxml++-2.6 glibmm-2.4 >= 2.18.0 giomm-2.4 >= 2.18.0 gthread-2.0 libgsasl >= 0.2.21 gtkmm-2.4 >= 2.12.0 gtksourceview-2.0 >= 2.4) were not met:

No package 'gtksourceview-2.0' found

Version 0.4.13 has even more old unsatisfied dependencies:

configure: error: Package requirements (libxml++-2.6 gtkmm-2.4 >= 2.6.0 gthread-2.0 net6-1.3 obby-0.4 >= 0.4.6 gtksourceview-2.0) were not met:

No package 'net6-1.3' found
No package 'obby-0.4' found
No package 'gtksourceview-2.0' found

So, it seems I've exhausted all the possibilities with older versions.

Where does the FreedomBox keep log entries of the gobby server? There is
nothing obvious in /var/log.  How can I enable any possible debugging
option?  Where would the certificate errors described in the previous post
show up?  Might this be a problem with the firewall being too
restrictive?

Thanks.

Augustine