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Also needed are GTK 3.0 or greater, pygobject 3.3.2 or greater, cairo, pango, pangocairo with introspection bindings (the gi packages), librsvg2 (svg icon view), xdg-utils. Furthermore, bsddb3 is required for Python 3.2 (not python 2.7).
==== Full install walkthrough ====
Following walkthrough was done on Kubuntu 13.04. Equal steps should be done on other platforms
sudo apt-get install subversion
svn co https://svn.code.sf.net/p/gramps/code/branches/maintenance/gramps40 gramps40
cd gramps40
sudo apt-get install intltool
python setup.py build
sudo apt-get install python-gobject python-gi python-cairo python-gi-cairo
sudo apt-get install gir1.2-freedesktop gir1.2-pango
sudo apt-get install gir1.2-gtk
If you now run
python Gramps.py -v
you should see all required packages are found. You can now start Gramps locally with the command
python Gramps.py
To install optional components, do the following:
==== Linux package requirements ====