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Author: Didier Kryn
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] ..how to installing it from a git repository "the good old Debian way", was: Hopman and inotify
Le 30/06/2021 à 12:15, Arnt Karlsen a écrit :
> On Tue, 29 Jun 2021 16:42:47 +0200, Didier wrote in message
> <dc78c3e0-2895-5fab-ed9a-c2d269c4a2b0@???>:
>
>> Le 13/06/2021 à 23:29, Haines Brown a écrit :
>>> I tried hopman some years ago and loved it, But when installed on a
>>> new machine failed copy the code. Would anyone indulge me by
>>> pointing to a link to the current stete of the application?
>>>
>>     "Legacy" hopman is back on gitlab, at
>> https://git.devuan.org/kryn/hopman
>> <https://git.devuan.org/kryn/hopman>. The executable is now
>> named /usr/bin/hopman-GTK2, and a symbolic link to it is created in
>> the same directory with the name hopman.
>>
>>     To build and install it, first retrieve it from
>> https://git.devuan.org/kryn/hopman
>> <https://git.devuan.org/kryn/hopman> ; Make sure you have the GTK+-2
>> library installed, eg libgtk-2.0 and libgtk-2.0-dev;
>>     then go to the subdirectory hopman-1.1;
> ..to do it "the good old Debian way", what are the missing stages
> that would prevent a "make deb && dpkg -i hopman" from working?
>

    I tried a few times, years ago, to folow this and others ready-made
recipes to "debianize" a package. It never worked and I never understood
why. Debian-know-it-all experts are welcome.

    --     Didier