> On the other hand to seemingly satisfy Geany's Developers current > requirements,
I don't understand what you mean by that. > I should in theory, for example, be able to auto-compile a C program by > issuing a Python command Indeed, its called `meson`, see Geany's `README`. This "script" is so complex it has its own project https://mesonbuild.com/. But even so it can't install the build dependencies and tools needed, because they and their install process are intimately linked to the distro and there are so many of them, although it can check they are present at the right version. > Use a "different" or "modified" Package Manager (not Debian repository "apt" > per se, as is, standard) software tool - to attempt to get Geany 1.38 > installed. A different package manager won't help, you still need the package for your Debian to be built by "somebody" . Thats what you are lacking for `apt`, its not some failure of the package manager, its a lack of the specific package built for your specific version of Debian. > In summary, the task faced by this hopeful Geany 1.38 Debian Buster-10 32-bit > OS user .... Might just be easier to build from source tarball. :smile: As I said I am not aware of anything that will prevent Geany 1.38 from building on a i386 platform ... if the required versions of libraries are available. > Any thoughts, suggestions, preferred solutions path(s), potentially helpful > links to pursue, tutorials to check out, etc.? Not really. Ultimately it comes back to the fact that almost the whole Linux ecosystem is built on volunteer effort, if "somebody" does something and shares it then it will be available, otherwise you need to do it yourself or persuade/pay someone to do it for you. At least the ability to do that is guaranteed by the availability of source code. Also support for Buster will end in a little over a years time IIUC, maybe its time to start considering upgrades. As a final note, I have assumed you need to run Geany in your VM because the files are not visible in Windows, otherwise you could just download the Geany Windows 1.38 installer. Closing because the conversation has progressed well beyond the scope of Geany. -- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/3502#issuecomment-1556059542 You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Message ID: <geany/geany/issues/3502/[email protected]>
