On 15 Sep 2016 18:17, "Frank" <zuiderd...@gmx.com> wrote: > > Op 15-09-16 om 18:11 schreef Greg Wooledge: > >> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 05:03:23PM +0100, Michael Fothergill wrote: >>> >>> ???http://www.xaraxtreme.org/download.html??? >> >> >> "The binaries we distribute require libstdc++ version 5, which is not >> installed as standard on some modern distributions (for example Ubuntu >> 5.10)." >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_version_history#Ubuntu_ 5.10_.28Breezy_Badger.29 >> >> "Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger), released on 12 October 2005" >> >> "Modern", they say. Heh. >> >> If you can *get* it to compile at all, that seems like the best path. >> APIs may have changed, especially with C++. > > > Look at the update date on that page... Ten years ago, 2005 *was* 'modern' (LOL). > > Wow... Xara, or rather Computer Concepts. I remember them from when they were still primarily writing for RISC OS... Oh dear... > > http://www.xara.com/us/history/ > > > But wouldn't looking at the last version in Debian's snapshot archive make more sense? > > http://snapshot.debian.org/package/xaralx/0.7r1785-7/ > > That's 'only' from March 2014. Haven't tried working with it, though. So no idea if you can use it on current Debian (it does install and open on this Testing box).
So does that mean that I could do dpkg - i on the three deb files you found there and xaraxl might actually run after all...... ??? Regds MF > > Regards, > Frank >
