Re: [Texmacs-dev] appimages

[Massimiliano Gubinelli]

Yeah. It does not work...
I will try another method.
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> On 28. Nov 2020, at 17:50, Giovanni Piredda <pireddag@posteo.de> wrote:
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> 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
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>> <https://www.dropbox.com/s/yn8w5ebzo59pg5d/GNU_TeXmacs-1.99.16-x86_64.AppImage?dl=0>
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>> 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).
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> On Xubuntu 20.10 I obtain the error
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> execv error: Permission denied
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> Permissions are set to -rwxrwxr-x
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>> 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.
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