Actually, it worked after all. One has to INSTALL the binaries. At first I just run "debian/rules build", and tried to run the resulting gramofile binary without any other actions with the results reported above. As it took me some time to figure it out, it may be useful for others who are also new at compiling packages from source, to summarize it. The easiest way is to follow this steps:
1. apt-get source gramofile 2. apt-get build-dep gramofile 3. cd gramofile-1.6 4. fakeroot debian/rules binary 5. cd .. 6 dpkg -i gramofile_1.6-8_i386.deb 7. Now you can delete the gramofile-1.6 directory and all the other intermediate files yuu don't want to keep -------- In step 1. the downloaded archives are extracted and the patches are applied, so that the directory gramofile-1.6 created in that step actually contains the code for version 1.6-8. Step 4 creates the binary debian package gramofile_1.6-8_i386.deb that one can distribute. It contains binary gramofile and bplay_gramo that are smaller than those created by "debian/rules build". Only after I installed this debian package in step 6 as any other debian packages, did my gramofile started to work. Even my first version created by "debian/rules build". I also tried in 4. binary-arch, but it did not seem to do any difference for my system. I was able to copy my gramofile_1.6-8_i386.deb to another machine (a Dell mini 9), install it there and it worked. On both machine the binary gramofile package installed from Ubuntu did not work, gave the same message as others reported above (/dev/dsp: invalid argument) -- after upgrade to 7.10 gramofile bring the followin failure /dev/dsp: invalid argument https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/200181 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
