On Tuesday 11 November 2014 04.48:05 Michele Calgaro wrote:
> On 11/11/2014 06:22 AM, Timothy Pearson wrote:
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> >
> > In general you want to do major development on a dedicated system (one
> > that you can wipe/reload if needed) due to the possibility of breaking
> > core components of TDE.  I'd recommend at least a dual-core machine with
> > several GB of RAM as well.
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> >
> > Hope this helps some!
> >
> > Tim
>
> Hi, Tim already posted some very good instructions.
> I just add that after v14.0.0 is released, we are planning to add some
> building scripts to the TDE repository for Debian/Ubuntu to help anyone who
> wants to build their own packages to get started. Just keep in mind that
> TDE is huge and if you use the current sources it gets broken from time to
> time by changes in other packages provided by the distribution (especially
> on a rolling distribution like Jessie), so sometimes you will have to do
> some fix-up or wait for a fix-up to appear on the GIT sources.
>
> Cheers
>    Michele

Thanks to both for the information. I think I'll wait for the building scripts 
to try and see if I can manage that.

I do have a Core-i7 Machine around with 8 cores and 8GB memory doing little, 
soI thought I could make it a little busy...

Thierry