Am Sa., 13. März 2021 um 23:42 Uhr schrieb [email protected] < [email protected]>:
> Once you have some version of Leo working - say, 6.1 - you can run other > versions without actually installing them. > A simple way to run any particular Leo version from GitHub is to get the > zip file for that branch presumably *devel *- make sure you switch to the > *devel* branch before getting it. Unzip it somewhere, say in > */home/you/Downloads*. The top-level directory will be *leo-editor-devel*. > Then to run that version: > > $ export PYTHONPATH='/home/you/Downloads/leo-editor-devel' > $ python3 -m leo.core.runLeo > > This will work as long as the newer version of Leo does not require later > versions of PyQt5, etc, because this method will not install them. > Yes, this is another workaround available - and - thanks for reminding me of that option. On Saturday, March 13, 2021 at 3:15:57 PM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: > >> Viktor Ransmayr schrieb am Samstag, 13. März 2021 um 20:19:02 UTC+1: >> >>> >>> stevelitt schrieb am Samstag, 13. März 2021 um 19:54:46 UTC+1: >>> >>>> >>>> This isn't responsive to your question, but it's some information... >>>> >>>> I have an extremely low opinion of Debian. I'm not a big fan of pip >>>> either. Why not follow the instructions for git clone to install? I've >>>> found, especially with Debian, that compiling yourself is a lot more >>>> certain victory than Debian packages or pip. >>> >>> >>> Although I'm having a workaround already, I'll spend the additional >>> effort to install Leo 6.4-devel into Debian 10 using Git (and ! Pip ! ). >>> >>> However after that, I'll just create an issue documenting the overall >>> status of Leo on Debian. >>> >>> This is as much as I can / want to spend on this issue. - After all I'd >>> like to start working on the other topic, which 'forces' me to move from a >>> Fedora VM to a Debian VM ;-) >>> >> >> I've decided to create two issues for this problem - See >> >> * https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor/issues/1847 <- For Leo stable >> from PyPI ... >> * https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor/issues/1848 <- For Leo devel >> from GitHub ... >> > However it in my opinion also another example, why it is necessary to distinguish b/w * Installing 'Leo stable' from PyPI using Pip onto a Debian platform - and - * Installing 'Leo devel' from GitHub using Git & Pip onto a Debian platform. The first one should work for the **user**, who wants to use Leo as an outliner on a slowly evolving - but - very stable platform like Debian. The second one should work for the **developer**, who is interested in packaging Leo for Debian. That's at least the way, I currently see & understand it ... Viktor -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/CAAeSrG%2BD68%3DOegO%2BRuHTsgDVD%2BdoJ7kyj1SF6%2BJ8mXfMWX%3De%2Bg%40mail.gmail.com.
