I have tried pre-build deb package, can;t work, here is the log information, seems not very helpful:

(Reading database ... 258812 files and directories currently installed.)

Preparing to unpack texmacs_1.99.9-1-svn-10578-git-10671-3d0f17e-guile-1.8.8_amd64.deb ...

Unpacking texmacs (2:1.99.9-1-svn-10578-git-10671-3d0f17e-guile-1.8.8) ...

dpkg: error processing archive texmacs_1.99.9-1-svn-10578-git-10671-3d0f17e-guile-1.8.8_amd64.deb (--install):

 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/fig2ps.1.gz', which is also in package fig2ps 1.5-1

dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)

Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160824-0ubuntu1) ...

Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...

Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3.1) ...

Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...

Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...

Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.5-2ubuntu0.1) ...

Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...

Errors were encountered while processing:

 texmacs_1.99.9-1-svn-10578-git-10671-3d0f17e-guile-1.8.8_amd64.deb

I also tried build from sources, facing some problems here. 

If I go to texmacs/src folder and run “./configure” will got an error “configure: error: QT plugins not found!”. Here is full log:

checking for working iconv... yes

checking for iconv declaration... 

         extern size_t iconv (iconv_t cd, char * *inbuf, size_t *inbytesleft, char * *outbuf, size_t *outbytesleft);

./configure: line 6505: LC_FREETYPE: command not found

./configure: line 6510: LC_CAIRO: command not found

./configure: line 6515: LC_IMLIB2: command not found

./configure: line 6520: LC_AXEL: command not found

./configure: line 6524: LC_GS: command not found

./configure: line 6529: LC_SQL: command not found

./configure: line 6534: LC_SPARKLE: command not found

checking size of void *... 8

checking if we are on a 64-bits computer... yes

final adjustments for an Intel or AMD GNU/Linux host

checking for XML_ParserCreate in -lexpat... yes

checking for xcb_disconnect in -lxcb... yes

disabling experimental style rewriting code

./configure: line 7025: HACKED_AT_WITH_QT: command not found

enabling Qt port

configure: error: QT plugins not found!

I have checked configuration file, found it use qt-5, but not sure which library should I install. Initially I want to simply install all libqt5* libraries, but it contains conflicts can not be resolved by package manager. 

Another way as you mentioned at README file, 

...

ln -s packages/debian .

. ./setup_build_env.sh

dpkg-checkbuildeps

The checkbuildeps part printed nothing, so I guess the env is fine? But don’t know how to do next? Could you list some references?

Thanks

Zen 

On Nov 24, 2016, at 19:25, Karl Hegbloom <address@hidden> wrote:

Recompile for new libc with iconv integrated within it.

You can try my snapshot builds if you like. Since they have some modifications from Joris' trunk, please use the issue tracker on github so I can triage and forward any bug reports. https://github.com/KarlHegbloom/texmacs/releases

On Thu, Nov 24, 2016, 17:06 Zhang Zhen <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi all,

I recently tested on Ubuntu16.04/14.04 and mac os EI Capitan. When I click the “help->manual->Browser” or some other documents

it will crash. 

Here are console logs:

QIconvCodec::convertFromUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv_open failed

QIconvCodec::convertToUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv_open failed

Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 70: non-double matrix element

Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 70: non-double matrix element

Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 78: saw unknown, expected number

TeXmacs] With linked TrueType support

TeXmacs] convert-error, Cannot read image file 'ramdisc://image.png' in qt_image_size

TeXmacs] warning: cannot render /home/zarzen/.TeXmacs/system/tmp/5980/tmp_27440757.png

Throwing segmentation fault

-------------------------------------------------

Error message:

  segmentation fault

System information:

  TeXmacs version  : 1.99.5

  Built by         : denis

  Building date    : Fri Jul  8 12:11:18 CEST 2016

  Operating system : linux-gnu

  Vendor           : pc

  Processor        : i686

  Crash date       : Thu Nov 24 15:54:57 PST 2016

Editor status:

  Root path          : [ 1 ]

  Current path       : [ 1, 0, 0 ]

  Shifted path       : [ 1, 0, 0 ]

  Physical selection : [] -- []

Backtrace of C++ stack:

  [0x897203c]

  [0x80a1afd]

  [0xf77f2cb0]

  [0x8871f27]

  [0x885f945]

  [0x804b43a]

  [0x86e7810]

  [0x944581e]

  [0x9492327]

  [0x944d97e]

  [0x9441744]

  [0x8b02cec]

  [0x8b077a7]

  [0x86e70a0]

  [0x942f47b]

  [0x945c177]

  [0x945c34e]

  [0x8ba5ea2]

  [0x942df59]

  [0x942e462]

  [0x94344fb]

  [0x8b01547]

  [0x894c06f]

  [0x95086ba]

  [0x955f4d2]

  [0x954702e]

  [0x955f9e1]

  [0x955fa91]

  [0x9545dfb]

  [0x9545ec1]

  [0x9508651]

  [0x86086cc]

  [0x895091b]

  [0x95a8c5f]

  [0x80481e1]

————————————————————————

I can install virtual machine and use it in on that, so any linux version is fine, just make it work.

Thanks, 

Zen