Best way to install Ice 3.4 on Ubuntu?

The list of platforms at http://www.zeroc.com/platforms_3_4_0.html doesn't include Ubuntu, and the packages in apt only provide Ice 3.3.1. Would the best way to get the latest and greatest version be to build it from source? Or did someone have success converting RPM packages using alien?

Alexey Romanov wrote: »

The list of platforms at http://www.zeroc.com/platforms_3_4_0.html doesn't include Ubuntu, and the packages in apt only provide Ice 3.3.1. Would the best way to get the latest and greatest version be to build it from source? Or did someone have success converting RPM packages using alien?

I have contacted the Debian Maintainer last week to ask about the status of 3.4. He did not reply yet. I plan to provide Debian packages within the next 2 weeks.

Until then you can give alien a try ......

Thank you!

I have a packages version of ice 3.4

the repository is :

deb Index of /nicotra-andrea/ppa-etreus/ubuntu lucid main
deb-src Index of /nicotra-andrea/ppa-etreus/ubuntu lucid main

or

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:nicotra-andrea/ppa-etreus

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Any chance this could get back ported to Karmic?

rspencer wrote: »

Any chance this could get back ported to Karmic?

yet is backported, check

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/nicotra-andrea/ppa-etreus/ubuntu karmic main 
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/nicotra-andrea/ppa-etreus/ubuntu karmic main 

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Andrew wrote: »

yet is backported, check

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/nicotra-andrea/ppa-etreus/ubuntu karmic main 
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/nicotra-andrea/ppa-etreus/ubuntu karmic main 

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I'd be very grateful for a build for 11.04 natty. Or maybe you could outline how you created the packages.

Thank you!

ubuntu packages of zeroc-ice 3.4.2 release are ready on my repository , actually only for ubuntu 10.04 (lucid) .

I'll release the deb packages for ubuntu 11.04 soon

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