Building spring engine

[Yahweh]

Hey everyone
I'm having trouble building spring engine in Ubuntu Jaunty
I followed the instructions on the page http://springrts.com/wiki/Ubuntu_install and successfully installed the spring engine and used the CLick here to install everything option
When i ran the spring engine it notified me that i have version 0.80.5 and need 0.81.1 to play online (as expected )

so i i found the page http://springrts.com/wiki/Building_spring Building spring engine with the latest version which i downloaded the latest release as a tar.gz package but there is no info on building the latest release (i'm bit noob with ubuntu still ) the only information i found in the tar.gz package to install was a text file linking me back this page http://springrts.com/wiki/Building_spring where the link to build spring engine is broken
Please help , where can i get some info on updating my version of spring engine
It tried everything the past 3 hours but it feels like i'm going in a circle!

Any help would be much appreciated

[hoijui]

the last link you posted (http://springrts.com/wiki/Building_spring) has a link to this page:
http://springrts.com/wiki/Building_Spring_on_Linux
.. which is what you need.

which link is broken?

[jandd]

You may also have a look at the Debian packaging git repository at http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-games/spring.git where we (mammadori and me) prepare the current version of the Debian package.

To build it you should perform

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git clone git://git.debian.org/pkg-games/spring.git
cd spring
git-buildpackage

You need a proper git-buildpackage setup to have success with this method.

[koshi]

https://launchpad.net/~spring/+archive

[jandd]

https://launchpad.net/~spring/+archive

Why is the spring binary package renamed to spring-engine in your Ubuntu PPA? Maybe we should coordinate this a bit better to synchronize Debian and Ubuntu work. We also have a git repository for springlobby http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-games/springlobby.git if this is interesting for you.

[koshi]

I just did this round of updates because the neither of the two usual guys got to do it in a while. I have no interest of it becoming a regular thing for me.

[Yahweh]

thanks for the reply's and help
but unfortunately i still can't get the latest version installed , i have downloaded the latest release round about three times now and have the files in my home dir
i tried these command

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 git clone git://git.debian.org/pkg-games/spring.git
cd spring 
git-buildpackage

and it seems i need Git installed which i did try by using

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apt-get install git-core

which said installed successfully
and tried

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git-buildpackage

again i got this error

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dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: debhelper (>= 7.0.50~) quilt (>= 0.40) cmake asciidoc docbook-xsl default-jdk libboost-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-regex-dev libboost-serialization-dev libboost-signals-dev libboost-system-dev libboost-thread-dev libdevil-dev libfreetype6-dev libgcj9-dev libglew-dev libogg-dev libopenal-dev libsdl-dev libvorbis-dev libxcursor-dev p7zip-full python2.5-dev
debuild: fatal error at line 1293:

which said i don't have Git installed or some dependencies

this is all so confusing i'll admit it i'm a big tard when it comes to linux

isn't there an easier way of updating spring? , i have it installed but i need updated release
can't i download the whole latest release somewhere and just execute it

thanks for the help so far

[jandd]

The PPA that koshi mentioned contains updated spring-engine packages for Ubuntu https://launchpad.net/~spring/+archive/ ... ter=karmic