I am trying to install on Ubuntu 10.04
I currently have 1.9.1 which I easily installed time ago
launching the command ./configure I get a wad of errors due to requirements. It all seems to be dev stuff that is needed. It makes it really uncomfortable for normal users who don't need dev stuff on their computers

these are some of the dependencies required

python-cheetah
gdome
gtkmm requirements
sigc requirements
gtk
glibmm
gtkmm
GSTREAMER
Pulseaudio development headers not found.

(In reply to comment #0)
Ubuntu 10.04 comes with Workrave 1.9.1 by default. It installs quite easily, because the nice folks at Ubuntu have compiled it for you. For compiling they needed the "dev stuff". After compiling, it is not needed any more, and hence it is not installed by default on your computer.

When you decided to build Workrave 1.9.3 from source, you took on the role of the ubuntu guys, and hence need the "dev stuff". Installing it is by far the easiest way forward. Alternatively, you could try to convince someone else to build 1.9.3 for you (like Ubuntu did with 1.9.1), or you could pbuilder or some such to build workrave in a chroot environment, such that all the unneeded stuff is uninstalled afterwards. But I wouldn't recommend that unless you have a thorough understanding of how to build .deb packages.

May I ask why you want to upgrade to 1.9.3 in the first place? 1.9.1 works fine for me, the only drawback being that I don't have reading-mode yet.

Workrave has a lot of dependencies and is probably not the easiest program to compile.The README file contains a list of required packages, but it seems this list is already out of date... I will update the list.

You could also upgrade to Ubuntu 10.10 which already come with Workrave 1.9.3 :-)

I'm closing this bug; I'm afraid I can't make life much more comfortable for normal users wanting to build Workrave. They will have to install the dev packages....