Rich Shepard's instructions were pretty accurate. It is pretty standard
build and install process.
I would encourage you to try it after reading the document in the
README file you listed.
The only complication might be missing dependencies which you will need
to install using apt-get.
You can find out what is missing by looking for errors and
package/library output of the configure command:
./configure
When there is missing library or package needed for build:
make
You typically need xyz-devel package. You can identify the full name by
searching for it by:
sudo aptitude search package/library
To see what the commands do, you can ask Linux manual to help on the
individual commands.
For example: man tar
Best regards,
Tomas
On Fri, 2017-05-26 at 10:04 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 05/26/2017 09:15 AM, Bill Barry wrote:
> > On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 5:34 AM, Richard Owlett <
> > [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Though a computer _user_ from vacuum tube era, I'm still new to
> > > Linux.
> > > I run Debian Stretch (Testing) and typically install using
> > > Synaptic or
> > > apt-get.
> > >
> > > I am currently running Tomboy 1.14.1 from the Debian repository
> > > and wish
> > > to run the latest version from upstream. There is not a .deb
> > > package for
> > > it. I have downloaded & extracted
> > >
> > > .xz>
> > > to a directory set aside for non-Debian software.
> > >
> > > What to do after having backed-up my existing notes?
> > >
> > > I suspect it's only a couple of commands.
> > > What I'm looking for is some documentation describing the
> > > process.
> > > A cookbook solution would be nice but my goal is to know what I'm
> > > doing.
> > >
> > > My motto is "If retirement isn't for education, what use is it?"
> > >
> > > TIA
> > >
> > >
> > While there may not be a deb package, it is possible that you can
> > build one > from the source. Try this
> >
> > https://wiki.debian.org/BuildingTutorial
> >
>
> GROSS overkill and may not be applicable to MY goals.
> It may have given hint for solving an unrelated problem that's been
> bugging me for eons.
>
> Upstream considers the supplied file (once extracted) to be
> satisfactory
> for a typical user to trivially install tomboy. There are lots of
> scripts in top level. But I've no idea of which to run in what order.
>
> richard@stretch-2nd:/usr/local/common/tomboy/tomboy-1.15.8$ dir
> --group-directories-first
> data> > test compile> > configure> >
> intltool-extract.in
> Makefile.in> > README
> help> > Tomboy config.guess configure.ac intltool
> -merge.in
> Makefile.include tomboy.doap
> libtomboy aclocal.m4 config.h.in COPYING> > intltool
> -update.in
> missing> > > tomboy.spec
> m4> > AUTHORS config.rpath depcomp> > ltmain.sh>
> > NEWS> > > tomboy.spec.in
> po> > ChangeLog config.sub install-sh Makefile.am>
> > pot-update.in
>
>
>
>
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