# notify-osd in Ubuntu Intrepid


A short guide on how to build the new notification system, 
which is scheduled for Jaunty, for Intrepid.

First download the source packages from:
[http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/jaunty/notify-osd](http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/jaunty/notify-osd)

You will need the `.dsc` and the `.tar.gz` files, then you need to
follow the Debian way of building the package.

    dpkg-source -x notify-osd_0.9ubuntu2.dsc
    cd notify-osd-0.9ubuntu2/

One important tweak, otherwise it will not install in Intrepid
and will complain about an human-icon-theme that is tool old

    vi debian/control

And change to `Depends:` line of the package notify-osd to:

    Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, human-icon-theme (>= 0.30)

Build your package, you may need to install any packages that might be 
needed for the build:

    dpkg-buildpackage -us -us -nc -rfakeroot

Wait a little and then you should see a `notify-osd_0.9ubuntu2_i386.deb`
in the parent directory. This can then be installed with a simple
`dpkg -i notify-osd_0.9ubuntu2_i386.deb`