Re: [Rosegarden-user] Tried to start RG 17.04 on my desktop, crash!

2017-10-29 Thread david
On 10/29/2017 04:49 AM, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: On 10/28/2017 09:53 PM, david wrote: dist-upgrade is the mechanism Ubuntu uses when a new LTS version comes out and you choose to upgrade to the new version, I think. If you don't update to totally new sources, however, it merely handles

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Tried to start RG 17.04 on my desktop, crash!

2017-10-29 Thread D. Michael McIntyre
On 10/28/2017 09:53 PM, david wrote: dist-upgrade is the mechanism Ubuntu uses when a new LTS version comes out and you choose to upgrade to the new version, I think. If you don't update to totally new sources, however, it merely handles changing dependencies from one version of an installed

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Tried to start RG 17.04 on my desktop, crash!

2017-10-29 Thread Will Godfrey
On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 19:19:47 -0400 "D. Michael McIntyre" wrote: >Well, I made it through 2.5 weeks of notice, collected my quarterly >bonus on my last day, and handed in my keys. Is that retirement, or just fed up with the job and moving on? best wishes,

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Tried to start RG 17.04 on my desktop, crash!

2017-10-28 Thread D. Michael McIntyre
On 10/27/2017 03:19 AM, david wrote: I've noticed that when I upgrade my Debian Testing installations using "apt-get upgrade" vs Synaptic's "Mark all upgrades" option, apt-get reports a number of packages being held back. I've always used "apt-get dist-upgrade" and skipped the pretty package

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Tried to start RG 17.04 on my desktop, crash!

2017-10-27 Thread david
On 10/18/2017 07:28 PM, david wrote: On 10/18/2017 05:47 PM, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: On 10/18/2017 02:40 AM, david wrote: Well, I prefer Debian. The problem used to be they only released every 67.3 years, and if you couldn't wait that long, there were no good alternatives.  Testing

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Tried to start RG 17.04 on my desktop, crash!

2017-10-18 Thread david
On 10/18/2017 05:47 PM, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: On 10/18/2017 02:40 AM, david wrote: Well, I prefer Debian. The problem used to be they only released every 67.3 years, and if you couldn't wait that long, there were no good alternatives.  Testing definitely wasn't a good alternative.  I

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Tried to start RG 17.04 on my desktop, crash!

2017-10-18 Thread D. Michael McIntyre
On 10/18/2017 02:40 AM, david wrote: Well, I prefer Debian. The problem used to be they only released every 67.3 years, and if you couldn't wait that long, there were no good alternatives. Testing definitely wasn't a good alternative. I ended up with more breakage with Testing than I did

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Tried to start RG 17.04 on my desktop, crash!

2017-10-18 Thread david
On 10/17/2017 12:57 PM, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: On 10/17/2017 05:34 AM, david wrote: Starting it from a terminal filled the screen with multiple errors and lists of .so files etc, etc. When you're running an unstable distro with extra repositories and getting a bunch of .so errors, it's

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Tried to start RG 17.04 on my desktop, crash!

2017-10-17 Thread D. Michael McIntyre
On 10/17/2017 05:34 AM, david wrote: Starting it from a terminal filled the screen with multiple errors and lists of .so files etc, etc. When you're running an unstable distro with extra repositories and getting a bunch of .so errors, it's probably just a matter of broken runtime

[Rosegarden-user] Tried to start RG 17.04 on my desktop, crash!

2017-10-17 Thread david
Good evening! I went to use RG 17.04 on my desktop PC system running Debian Testing with added KXStudio Repositories. I wanted to make a slight change (add a subtitle) to a score I did in 2016, and remake the PDF. Double clicking the RG file gave me an RG splash screen, then that vanished