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[Marc Lalaude-Labayle <address@hidden>]

Hi,

what i've done (when i could do it) is copy the cvs version on my home
folder and compile this version.

In this way i had the stable ubuntu .deb package and i could try the cvs
version.

Now, i have a cvs version on my 8.04 PC and the experimental .deb on y
8.10 PC.


MLL






Le lundi 16 mars 2009 à 08:00 -0600, Bob Lounsbury a écrit :
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:00 AM, Andrea Gamba <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>         Hi,
>         
>         I have been reading the posts about texmacs 1.0.7 in Ubuntu. I
>         have tried to
>         install 1.0.7 on a cleanly installed Intrepid i386 box, but
>         with lot of
>         problems.
>         
>         I have tried with three different methods:
>         
>         1) downloading debs from Debian experimental. The debs get
>         installed but the
>         program crashes.
>         
>         2) the script kindly provided by Paul Zarucki. I get a
>         compilation error in the
>         end.
>         
>         3) transforming the rpm available on the texmacs site with
>         alien. It works
>         (it's the way I am happily using texmacs 1.0.7) but texmacs
>         mime type is not
>         recognized (no corresponding icons on the desktop, no opening
>         the program by
>         clicking on the icons). Also, I had to fix by hands the
>         interfaces to several
>         mathematical packages. These are minor problems but annoying
>         ones. I know how
>         to solve them by hands (I posted about it), I think therefore
>         that it should
>         not be difficult to solve them at the level of the deb file
>         (but I am not able
>         to do it myself.)
>         
>         I hoped that there would be a deb package of 1.0.7 for Ubuntu
>         9.04, which will
>         be out in the end of April, but it seems that they are still
>         at 1.0.6. I
>         noticed that 1.0.7 fixed a lot of bugs, so it's a pity it will
>         not available in
>         the next Ubuntu realease. If there would be a deb available, I
>         would be happy
>         to test it to check the working of interfaces to several
>         mathematical packages.
>         
>         
>         So my question is: will there be a deb package for Ubuntu 9.04
>         before its
>         release? or is it possible that there would be one available
>         in backports? or
>         at least one for Ubuntu 9.10?
>         
>         Ubuntu is one of the more popular distributions around, in an
>         ideal world a deb
>         to the last texmacs version should be available and working
>         out of the box
>         together with good gnome integration (recognizing mime types)
>         and integration
>         with mathematical packages (sessions working out of the box,
>         no sh-bash
>         problems etc.)
>         
>         During the years I have been using texmacs more and more and I
>         am more or less
>         able to fix problems. However new users may be scared away by
>         a buggy interface
>         or difficulties in the installation. This hampers the wider
>         adoption of an
>         outstanding program while a small effort would allow to solve
>         these
>         comparatively minor problems.
>         
>         Andrea
> 
> 
> I've been following this thread albeit with a little confusion, and
> then it hit me. This is the problem with Ubuntu. There is just to much
> "hand holding" and now people are expecting that Ubuntu should do
> everything for them and anything they desire. Ubuntu provides a stable
> texmacs version, if you want the very latest version it's not Ubuntu's
> responsiblity to provide that the second it is available. Linux is not
> Windows, there will not always be the very latest program available
> for you to double-click and install, there is a standard version
> provided with the release so if you want the latest version it will
> require some work. The great thing about Debian derivatives is that
> this is rather trivial. If I wanted the latest version of texmacs I
> would:
> 
> 1) Download the latest source and extract it into
> ~/.installed_programs/TeXmacs-1.0.7.1
> 2) Open a terminal and cd to ~/.installed_programs/TeXmacs-1.0.7.1
> 3) Run 'sudo apt-get build-dep texmacs'
> 4) Run './configure && make && sudo make install'
> 
> Done. Nine times out of ten that's all that's needed to have the
> latest version installed.
> 
> /Bob