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I wanted to install font-manager on my Ubuntu 16.04. I used font-manager staging PPA to install the latest version. But it gives me an error after installation. The error mentioned "symbol lookup error".

Now I want to install it from source. How do I install it?

Zanna
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Anwar
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  1. First download the latest release archive from Font-manager github release page.

  2. Then extract the downloaded archive. If the filename is font-manager-0.7.3.tar.bz2, you can use tar xvf font-manager-0.7.3.tar.bz2 to extract it.

  3. Then install these development packages required to build it

    sudo apt-get install build-essential valac libjson-glib-dev libgree-dev libgree-0.8-dev libgucharmap-2-90-dev libsqlite3-dev libgirepository1.0-dev

    • (Optional) If you use file-browser integration, you also need these packages

      • For nautilus - python-nautilus package
      • For thunar - thunar-python package

    • (Optional) If you want to be able to use archive support, you need to have file-roller installed (Which comes with Ubuntu by default).

  4. Then use this command to configure while you're in the root of the source

    ./configure

    Optionally, if you want to enable installation from archives, you can use --with-file-roller option to configure command. In that case, you should have file-roller installed.

    Also you can enable file-browser integration for nautilus or thunar.

    So, for nautilus integreation and archive support, I'd use

    ./configure --with-file-roller --with-nautilus --with-thunarx

    (Yes, it's thunarx, not thunar)

    After the configuration is finished, you'll be given a confirmation like this

    Font Manager 0.7.3

C compiler:             gcc
Vala compiler:          /usr/bin/valac
Installation prefix:    /usr/local
Archive Support:        yes
File Browser Support:   yes

  5. Then use make and make install command

    make
sudo make install

That should successfully install the font-manager .

You can also use sudo checkinstall instead of the last command. That will create a deb file of the application and you can later remove it using this command. Also you can reuse the deb filw without doing all these steps again.

sudo dpkg -r font-manager

(Thanks to muru for noting this)

Update

Check the FontManager author's [answer][auth_ans] for easier method to build a deb package.

Anwar
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@Anwar - Nice, thanks.

Another option that should work on Ubuntu systems is building a debian package from master.

git clone https://github.com/FontManager/master.git
cd master/build-aux
make deb

HTH

Jerry Casiano
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