Dear all, I just compiled TeXmacs 1.99.7 on Ubuntu 18.04. As is well known, the only build requirement not provided by Ubuntu versions later than 16.04 is guile-1.8-dev. This package cannot be installed in Ubuntu 18.04, since it depends on libreadline6-dev, which has been superseded by libreadline-dev (which provides version 7).
As it turns out, it is straightforward to compile Guile 1.8.8 in Ubuntu 18.04 and afterwards compile TeXmacs. Therefore, I do not understand what is the big deal with providing a TeXmacs package in Ubuntu. In order to encourage further testing and (hopefully) the comeback of TeXmacs to the Ubuntu repos, here is what I did: $ wget -O proot https://github.com/proot-me/proot-static-build/blob/master/static/proot-x86_64?raw=true $ chmod u+x proot $ wget https://uk.images.linuxcontainers.org/images/ubuntu/bionic/amd64/default/20180814_07:42/rootfs.tar.xz $ tar xvfJ rootfs.tar.xz $ proot -S rootfs bash In the following # denotes the root shell inside PRoot # export PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin # apt update # apt install wget git These are Guile's build dependencies # apt install --no-install-recommends autoconf automake debhelper dh-autoreconf flex libgmp-dev libltdl-dev libncurses5-dev libreadline-dev libtool texinfo # wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.8.tar.gz # tar xzvf guile-1.8.8.tar.gz # cd guile-1.8.8 # ./configure --disable-dependency-tracking --enable-error-on-warning=no # make # make install These are TeXmacs' build dependencies # apt install --no-install-recommends build-essential autotools-dev cdbs debhelper ghostscript imagemagick ispell libfreetype6-dev libimlib2-dev libjpeg-progs libltdl-dev libqt4-dev librsvg2-bin libtiff-tools libx11-dev libxt-dev netpbm quilt r-base-core x11proto-core-dev xfig # git clone https://github.com/texmacs/GNUTeXmacs.git -b v1.99.7 # cd GNUTeXmacs # ./configure # make Voilà!
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