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Offline Jason W

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Beaver text editor
« on: March 09, 2015, 06:04:22 PM »
Beaver is available in the prebuilt section now.  It is the package from the Core repo.

Offline jls

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Re: Beaver text editor
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2015, 04:17:30 AM »
Hi
I would like to try here in dCore the browser & the pdf reader that curaga made for standard Core.
thanks
dCore user

Offline curaga

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Re: Beaver text editor
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2015, 06:06:19 AM »
I wonder if you should ask Debian to package them? (or Ubuntu, or whichever dCore you're using)
The only barriers that can stop you are the ones you create yourself.

Offline Jason W

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Re: Beaver text editor
« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2015, 07:18:32 AM »
What browser, pdf reader?  If it is a gtk1 app, gtk1 has been dropped by every distro except for Slackware (to keep XMMS) so gtk1 package requests would certainly not be accepted by Debian. 

JLS - Please request packages by the upstream package name.  I will create a thread for that.  And custom prebuilt packages on dCore not available from a Debian repo will be built on dCore.

Offline Juanito

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Re: Beaver text editor
« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2015, 08:14:54 AM »
The fifth browser and flax pdf reader

Offline Jason W

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Re: Beaver text editor
« Reply #5 on: March 10, 2015, 08:34:22 AM »
Thanks Juanito.  And Curaga is the upstream author of Fifth and Flax I see.  :-)  I still had my mind on the old gtk1 apps in the repo.   And being available for Debian would definitely be a plus.
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Re: Beaver text editor
« Reply #6 on: March 10, 2015, 06:55:25 PM »
Attempted a build of Fifth on dCore, the FLTK version 1.3 that is needed is newer than the libfltk-1.3 that is available even in Debian Sid.  Debian's hyper-stable nature - even in it's "unstable" repo - is good in many ways but sometimes does not have the newer things needed by new cutting edge apps.  I could add a custom build of FLTK-1.3 though libfltk-1.3 is in Debian, but the point of dCore is using Debian packages  unless those packages are not there.

I would like to see Fifth (and Flax) in dCore but for now I will wait until the FLTK and other offerings in Debian intersect with the needs of those apps instead of usurping Debian's package offerings with custom library builds that may break other Debian packages. 

Offline gwalther

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Re: Beaver text editor
« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2015, 08:24:14 PM »
Looked every where for the "prebuilt section"....can you please  a link or a little more direction...thanks.

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Re: Beaver text editor
« Reply #8 on: April 22, 2015, 09:10:23 AM »
I think I found what I was looking for here:

http://tinycorelinux.net/dCore/x86/import/



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Re: Beaver text editor
« Reply #9 on: April 22, 2015, 05:16:25 PM »
I have been busy the last few days, was not ignoring your post.

Glad you have found it.