- From: Bill Page <address@hidden>
- To: address@hidden
- Cc: Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>, address@hidden, Texmacs-Dev <address@hidden>
- Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] New binary versions under Linux
- Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 17:39:30 -0400
Thanks for the explanation. On my "newer" linux system should I
expect to see any differences between the "x11" version currently
downloadable from the web site:
http://www.texmacs.org/Download/ftp/tmftp/generic/TeXmacs-1.99.1-x11-i386-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz
versus your "qt" version TeXmacs-1.99.1-8433... ?
On 9 April 2014 05:37, <address@hidden> wrote:
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Those versions are supposed to be 'universal' not link to a specific
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distribution. They aim to provides TeXmacs for distributions which don't
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have it and also to give opportunity to have a newer version without
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recompiling. Else this versions could have some side effects like François
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noticed it.
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I didn't fully test but I would say 'old' is before kernel 2.6. We
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targeted distributions that are 10 years old.
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> Any hints about what old and new linux means in this context? Kernel?
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> What version in major distributions, e.g. Fedora, Ubuntu, SuSE ...
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> Also, what advantages this version should have over previous?
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> On 8 April 2014 10:47, Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> Denis Raux has managed to create static binaries for the Qt version of
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>> TeXmacs under Linux.
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>> His packages can be used instead of standard packages provided by
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>> various Linux distributions
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>> in the case that users want the most recent version or if the TeXmacs
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>> package is
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>> not well supported in their favourite distribution. It would be nice if
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>> as many volunteers under Linux as possible could try the new packages.
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>> The first (A) link is for old Linux distributions, whereas you should
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>> use the second (B) one for more recent versions of Linux.
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>> ftp://ftp.texmacs.org/TeXmacs/tmftp/generic/TeXmacs-1.99.1-8433_8437-i386-pc-linux-gnu-A.tar.gz
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>> ftp://ftp.texmacs.org/TeXmacs/tmftp/generic/TeXmacs-1.99.1-8433-i386-pc-linux-gnu-B.tar.gz
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>> Installation is similar as for the classical binary distributions.
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>> Best wishes, --Joris
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