On 10/28/2017 06:42 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 17:15:01 -0400 > H wrote: > >> The graphical configuration utility for fcitx (fcitx-configtool) is missing > I don't know anything about Chinese text rendering. > >> - The geany editor is missing the markdown plugin, this however, may shortly >> be resolved. > Check on my website. :) > > The rest of your stuff is easily dealt with by compiling the relevant Fedora > rpms. > >> I'd love to have keepassx updated > Download this: > > ftp://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/fedora/linux/releases/25/Everything/source/tree/Packages/k/keepassx-2.0.3-1.fc25.src.rpm > > and you can have this: > > keepassx-2.0.3-1.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm > > I just tried it and it took only a few minutes. > >> - pdfshuffler is not available for CentOS 7, only CentOS 6. > I just compiled this > > ftp://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/fedora/linux/releases/25/Everything/source/tree/Packages/p/pdfshuffler-0.6.0-9.fc25.src.rpm > > It took about three seconds to do the whole job and now I have this: > > pdfshuffler-0.6.0-9.el7.centos.noarch.rpm > > You can easily do the same if you wish. Just install rpmdevtools and any > necessary dependencies for the rpm that you want to compile and off you go. > The rpmbuild command will even tell you about any missing dependencies. For > example, my first attempt at compiling keepassx told me: > > error: Failed build dependencies: > libXtst-devel is needed by keepassx-1:2.0.3-1.el7.centos.x86_64 > libgcrypt-devel is needed by keepassx-1:2.0.3-1.el7.centos.x86_64 > > To fix it I did this: > > yum install libXtst-devel libgcrypt-devel > > My next attempt to compile the keepassx rpm worked. > > This isn't a guaranteed solution for absolutely every rpm or program that you > might ever come across; sometimes you get into a dependency rabbit hole that > never seems to end and it becomes more work than it's worth to solve. Other > times you get stuff that requires a newer or different version of something > that's way too much work to upgrade or change. But in a lot of cases, you > can just download and compile your own rpm as needed. As you see here, two > items on your wish list are easily handled this way in less than five > minutes. It took me longer to write this email than it did to download and > compile those programs. > > Thank you. I will set up the environment so I can compile apps on my computer.
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