[Xastir] Xastir Digest, Vol 199, Issue 1

[Lee Bengston]

On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Dexter N Muir <dexy at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
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> Thanks folks.
>
>    Once again, Google to the rescue: 'debian configure sudo' gave a 'fix'
> reply that gave the info. Done, and much happier. Now with sudo working,
> update and upgrade complete properly. Still no benefit to screen res -
> noted some missing bits from the non-free as the update flew past - and
> still no sane shutdown :(
>    Further to the script, Lee: libgraphicsmagick1-dev needed.
> Graphicsmagick itself is just the runtime - is it provided in a fresh
> install anyway? and did 6 haul in the -dev with it?


​I think you are referring to my old script for Debian 6 (Squeeze)​.  That
script did not install GraphicsMagick period but instead installed
Imagemagick.  In that case the development package was libmagickcore-dev.
That worked fine for Debian Squeeze.  At that time Imagemagick and
GraphicsMagick were more interchangeable.  I'm sure I could have used
either one - was more or less a coin flip.


> I didn't note before starting this adventure. And yes, too many root
> passwords! Working sudo might cure that by replacing the 'su -c's? And are
> they all necessary anyway? (just a 'cosmetic', as the Italian auto industry
> puts it: "omologato" :) ).
>

I would expect using sudo would be smoother due to less password prompting,
but if I write the script to assume sudo is configured it forces users to
configure sudo first before using it.​


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>    Finally, a working 2.0.7 in Jessie! Thanks, all, and Lee: a working
> script headed your way off-list. You might want to tidy it up before
> release into the wild. Diffs there might propagate into Ubuntu and Raspbian
> (and other?) scripts, too?
>
> ​Thanks for sending the Debian script - I'll take a look.  I don't
currently have a Debian Jessie installation to play with, but I could put
together a virtual machine.

Regarding Ubuntu, I have had a new version of the Ubuntu script working in
15.10 for a few days but didn't finalize the comments and post it until
today.  I wanted to give it a final acid test on a clean installation of
15.10 first - did that in a virtual machine a few hours ago.  The new
script be found via the following link:

​http://www.175moonlight.com/xastir/xastir.html

​When all was said and done, the only 2 changes applicable to version 15.10
as compared to 14.04 were 1) remove libxp-dev and 2) add libwebp-dev.  The
new script should also work in versions 14.10 and 15.04.  My observations
using those releases briefly was that no relevant package names had changed
from 14.04 to 14.10 to 15.04.  I had manually built Xastir successfully in
both 14.10 and 15.04 using the 14.04 installation notes from the Wiki.

BR,
Lee - K5DAT