I have successfully installed 1.36 on Debian Buster, and similar
procedures might be relevant for Ubuntu. In Buster, 1.33 is in the
repos, but I was alarmed to find that debugger-plugin had been dropped.
After a few false starts, I ended up with the following to build
1.36(GTK-2):
1. Save all my system and local config
2. Purge existing geany.
3. ~$ ./configure
4. ~$ make
5. ~$ sudo -s make install
The Geany documentation for step 5 says
6. ~$ sudo make install
On Debian that failed because of path problems locating ldconfig.
After installing the plugins, debugger did not immediately show up in
the plugin list in spite of restart. But it did the next day - may have
required a reboot.
Anyway, the debugger is working fine and an improvement on what we had
before!
Hope this is of some use.
Geoff
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On 09/11/2020 05:08, Lex Trotman wrote:
On Mon, 9 Nov 2020 at 14:54, Woodrow Stool <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks for the clarification Lex. Actually this ends up being my bad - I
recalled there was a .deb file on the Geany site, but checking now I see it is
source for Linux and installers for MacOS and Windows. There was a PPA
somewhere that had .deb versions of the latest releases, I'll have to check my
notes and recall where that was.
Its not been updated for 1.37 yet
https://launchpad.net/~geany-dev/+archive/ubuntu/ppa note despite the
implications of the name, its also maintained by an external packager
(the same one as debian), not the project devs.
So let me ask you a hypothetical question - assuming a .deb distribution comes
to light, what do you expect would happen if I sudo dpkg -i geany-something.deb
with 1.36 already installed? Do I need to delete 1.36 first?
Remember the distro specific package files are made by people outside
the project who are experts in the intricacies of doing that, but its
my amateur understanding that apt and debs take care of all that if
its installing a new version over an old version.
Same goes with building from source - delete the old version first?
Won't hurt to uninstall (not simply delete stuff, especially in system
directories), but probably not needed going from 1.36 to 1.37. Note
the only difference between 1.37 and 1.37.1 is only relevant to
windows, not linux, so don't sweat the x.x.1.
Cheers
Lex
Thanks again for all your help, and thanks very much to all those contributors
that made Geany happen.
- Woody
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