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Re: [TeXmacs] How to install Texmacs 1.0.7 on Ubuntu


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  • From: Marc Lalaude-Labayle <address@hidden>
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  • Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] How to install Texmacs 1.0.7 on Ubuntu
  • Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:59:57 +0100
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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


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