Yeah. It does not work... I will try another method. m
> On 28. Nov 2020, at 17:50, Giovanni Piredda <pired...@posteo.de> wrote: > > > On 28.11.20 14:58, Massimiliano Gubinelli wrote: >> Hi all, >> I'm not very knowegeable in this stuff, but in the meanwhile I've prepared >> an appimage >> >> https://www.dropbox.com/s/yn8w5ebzo59pg5d/GNU_TeXmacs-1.99.16-x86_64.AppImage?dl=0 >> >> <https://www.dropbox.com/s/yn8w5ebzo59pg5d/GNU_TeXmacs-1.99.16-x86_64.AppImage?dl=0> >> >> it seems to work (superficially) on my virtual Ubuntu. >> >> Can somebody try it and tell me if it is ok also for them. I will add the >> build recipe to the svn soon (this does not interfere in any way with the >> other build procedures). > > > On Xubuntu 20.10 I obtain the error > > execv error: Permission denied > > > Permissions are set to -rwxrwxr-x > >> >> Of course then each and every distribution can provide a specific fine tuned >> package. But we do not have the resources to maintain all those packages >> (and in my opinion we are not supposed to, not at least, centrally). >> Unfortunately our dependence on guile 1.8 makes things more complicated than >> needed... But the transition to Guile 3.0 will not be fast, even if it is >> underway. It might well take another 1-2 year. >> Alvaro, to me nothing is comparable to the ease of just downloading a single >> file and running it. Most users (e.g. some of my students) are not willing >> to spend time to learn a new tool (e.g. the guix package manager) just to >> try to run TeXmacs. >> > Probably it could be enough a package for Ubuntu, Debian, Suse, Fedora (I do > not find installation statistics, so I am guessing). Hopefully someone that > knows how to do these things can help out (helping with one of the > distributions might be affordable for someone who is familiar with it). > > Having the package in the standard repositories in addition to the other > options will convince someone to try the program. > > G. > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Texmacs-dev mailing list > Texmacs-dev@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev _______________________________________________ Texmacs-dev mailing list Texmacs-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev
