Am Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2025, 15:44:15 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb 
dave selby:
> Hello
> 
> Unfortunately Gforth is no longer a package in debian pixie and also LMDE
> 7, I believe this is the debian tracker for the package.
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gforth
> 
> I tried downloading 0.7.3 (Latest release) and also later versions of
> the traball from https://gforth.org/ and followed the instructions.
> 
> The first issue was
> 
> dave@HP-ProBook-450G3:~/Downloads/gforth-0.7.9_20230129$ sudo
> ./install-deps.sh
> [sudo] password for dave:
> /usr/bin/sudo
> ./install-deps.sh: 122: install_linuxmint: not found
> ./install-deps.sh: 119: install_gforth_linuxmint: not found
> /usr/bin/sudo
> /usr/bin/nproc
> ./install-swig.sh: 5: git: not found
> ./install-swig.sh: 6: cd: can't cd to swig
> 
> So I modified ./install-deps-sh and renamed “linuxmint” to “debian” in the
> code as $OS “linuxmint” is not supported. I ran it again and …
> 
> Reading state information... Done
> Package libpcre3-dev is not available, but is referred to by another
> package.
> This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
> is only available from another source
> 
> E: Package 'libpcre3-dev' has no installation candidate
> Reading package lists... Done
> 
> it continued but ended with …
> 
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Unable to locate package gforth
> E: Unable to locate package gforth-lib
> E: Unable to locate package gforth-common
> /usr/bin/sudo
> /usr/bin/nproc
> ./install-swig.sh: 5: git: not found
> ./install-swig.sh: 6: cd: can't cd to swig
> /usr/bin/sudo
> 
> I currently use LMDE 7, but as I understand it the same issue will be
> present in Debian Pixie.
> 
> Can anybody advise on how to get Gforth to install ?

The Dockerfile in docker/builder contains replacements for Trixie/Forky, i.e. 
downloads the missing packets as source and installs them from source.  I'll 
take that and put it into the install_debian script, too.

And apparently you don't have git installed, but it's needed, too; so I'll add 
git to the packages needed.

-- 
Bernd Paysan
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