I want to use UCK, the Ubuntu Customization Kit while using Ubuntu 12.04. But the tutorial, Roll Your Own Customized Ubuntu With UCK , at http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials...buntu-with-uck says,

A very important prequisite is to install libfribidi-bin. It is a required dependency that is not present in the uck package. If you don't install it your custom build will fail, when it is almost finished, with a "Failed to build gfxboot theme" error. This is is a bug going back to 12.04 or earlier, so sigh and deal with it.

After much googling, I don't see how to install that package in Precise Pangolin. Sysnaptic, however, does install UCK. Does it work anyway, without libfribidi-bin?

As usual, any help will be appreciated. Thank you.

P.S.: My hardware won't support Unity beyond 12.04.

Ubuntu 13.04, 13.10, 14.04 :
"libfribidi-bin" : Free Implementation of the Unicode BiDi algorithm.
Provides /usr/bin/fribidi , nothing else.

Ubuntu 12.04 precise : ``/usr/bin/fribidi´´ is provided by "libfribidi0".

Solution : $ sudo apt-get install libfribidi0

Ref.
. http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?ke...searchon=names
. http://packages.ubuntu.com/raring/libfribidi-bin
→ http://packages.ubuntu.com/raring/am...i-bin/filelist
. http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/libfribidi0
→ http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/i...bidi0/filelist

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Thank you for your help and references.

randyman@randyman-E-4000:~$ sudo apt-get install libfribidi0
[sudo] password for randyman:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libfribidi0 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

randyman@randyman-E-4000:~$ sudo apt-get install libc6
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libc6 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

randyman@randyman-E-4000:~$ sudo apt-get install libfribidi-bin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libfribidi-bin
randyman@randyman-E-4000:~$

# 3 .

Read post #2.
The "libfribidi-bin file" is included in libfribidi0,
.. which you already have installed.


Here is a valid link to Carla Schroder's `Roll Your Own Customized Ubuntu With UCK´
http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials...buntu-with-uck
.. I guess she didn't take into account the information you can get
from the links in post #2.

She may have been thinking Ubuntu 13.04 only :
"13.04" was the only version with a separate //bin/fribidi at that time,
19 September 2013 !

Besides that : Don't believe everything written on the Internet / in a Magazine.

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Thank you very much for your time and attention.

As I read http://packages.ubuntu.com/raring/libfribidi-bin, libfribidi0 (>= 0.19.2) is one of libfribidi-bin (0.19.5-1)'s dependecies; which (I suppose) would explain why even though I have libfribidi0 installed, terminal says:

randyman@randyman-E-4000:~$ sudo apt-get install libfribidi-bin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libfribidi-bin
randyman@randyman-E-4000:~$

In the mean time, however (and forgive me for saying so), I still don't have libfribidi-bin.

All help given me is much apprecriated. Thanks.

# 5 .
Yes you have : libfribidi-bin is one file = /usr/bin/fribidi

Which you already have from the installed libfribidi0
http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/i...bidi0/filelist

Please read posts #2 and #4.

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Do I have this right(?): I go to /usr/bin and when I find an empty folder (file?) fribidi, that's it?

# 7 .

'fribidi' is an executable file, in /usr/bin/ .

* /usr/bin/ is in your PATH, so applications that can use 'fribidi',
will find it automatically.

Conclusion : Do nothing.

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Thank you very much! Not just for the help, but also for your patience with a noob.






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