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These steps have been tested with Ubuntu 10.10. Don't take them literally, they might need some adjustment depending on your environment.

* Remember to switch your username into /home/<username>/ in the instructions

Install jhbuild

• sudo apt-get install jhbuild

Copy default jhbuildrc under your home directory as .jhbuildrc

• cp /usr/share/jhbuild/jhbuild/defaults.jhbuildrc ~/.jhbuildrc

Update the .jhbuildrc to contain these:

• moduleset = 'gnome-apps-3.4'
• modules = [ 'meta-gnome-core', 'meta-gnome-apps-tested']

• prefix='/home/<username>/rygel'

Setup the jhbuild deps

• jhbuild bootstrap
• jhbuild sanitycheck

Add GStreamer PPA

• Install/upgrade gstreamer core, plugins-base/good/bad/ugly, tools + dev packages

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gstreamer-developers/ppa

Install dependencies

• sudo apt-get install tracker libgee-dev libsqlite3-dev libsoup2.4-dev uuid-dev xsltproc docbook-xsl gnome-common gtk-doc-tools valac

Build&Install GUPnP dependencies with jhbuild

• jhbuild buildone gssdp gupnp gupnp-av gupnp-dlna vala

Copy gee-1.0.vapi

• Because prefix='$HOME/rygel' in .jhbuildrc, copy the gee-0.8.vapi to the right place

• cp /usr/share/vala-0.10/vapi/gee-0.8.vapi /home/<username>/rygel/share/vala-0.12/vapi/

Cd into a directory for development

• cd ~/development

Get Rygel

• git clone git://git.gnome.org/rygel

Get into the jhbuild shell

• jhbuild shell

Build and install Rygel

• cd rygel
• ./autogen.sh --enable-uninstalled
• make

Exit the jhbuild shell

• exit

Run Rygel

• ~/development/rygel/src/rygel/rygel