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Newby :) - Can I install the "Worker" binary from the dev's web site?
handy:
Hi all,
TC looks great. I'll install it to a HDD tomorrow & start learning. The time has come for me to make a change in distro after many years, & hopefully TC just may become my new home.
As it stands, I've been using Arch then Manjaro for ~8 years. So I'm a binary boy (apart from the easy compiles from the AUR). TC's Appbrowser looks to be a very cool way to handle packages. Though it is going to take me some learning/adjusting to get used to the TC way of managing packages that do need to be compiled because they aren't in the repo.
I like (a lot) that you haven't been taken over by systemd, & that TC is basically a roll your own distro (if you want it to be), I find that very appealing.
Anyway, the reason for this wordy post is that I've been long used to running a system that is set up on Openbox, with tint2, Worker, qBittorrent, Pale Moon (Firefox if I have to), Terminator, Sakura, Evince, GParted, VLC; these are my primary app's. I can use alternatives to some of these app's if I have to, but, after many years of use, Worker has become essential to the way that I use a computer, to the point that if a system doesn't run Worker, I'm not interested. (I know, its my problem...) :)
So, THE question is: can I just download & install Ralph's binary Worker package & it will run? Do I just need to match Worker with compatible versions of the X11 libraries, as they are basically Worker's only dependencies?
Anyway, thanks for a great distro & for any help that I may get. ;)
Please forgive my ignorance, & my being presumptuous in asking this so soon. I'm being driven by the thought of possibly not being able to use Worker. :o <shaking at the thought!>
Misalf:
Are you talking about this?
http://www.boomerangsworld.de/cms/worker/
Tried to compile...
--- Code: ---checking gxx version... 4.9.1
configure: error:
*********************************************************************
* Due to a code optimizer problem, GCC 4.9.0/1 is not supported. *
* You may install a different compiler version and rerun this *
* script like "CXX=g++-4.8 ./configure ..." to use that version. *
*********************************************************************
--- End code ---
handy:
Thanks for your input Misalf. :)
Yes, that is Ralph's site & the home of Worker.
Do you think it is possible to get around that problem?
Would a pre-compiled package from his site work?
nitram:
Sometimes placing the executable from another distribution into your system will work.
For Tiny Core you can try placing executables into either:
/usr/local/bin/
/home/tc/.local/bin
It looks like a reasonably simple program: https://packages.debian.org/jessie/i386/worker/filelist
I downloaded the .deb from the Debian site, extracted and tried to run executable:
worker: error while loading shared libraries: libavfs.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
There does not appear to be such a file in current TC6 repository and additional dependencies may also be missing,
so it might take a bit of work to get it running.
A developer or ambitious user reading this thread may try to compile everything,
otherwise post a formal extension requrest in the extension request subforum.
Lastly, TC has numerous alternative file managers.
handy:
Thanks nitram. :)
I'll try installing the executable from Manjaro & also the download from Ralph's site & see how I go.
I have had words with Ralph a few times over the years, my impression was that he is a helpful kind of person. So I may end up having to contact him with specifics of the problem, I'm pretty sure that he will explain to me what is going on & offer any helpful advice that he can.
I've a few things that I have to get done today before I can set myself down & get started on installing TC to HDD & start the attempt to make a system the way I like them to be.
Thanks again for your help.
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