Re: Can not tweak objects in Debian's Version 2.5.0

[Lib Lists]

On Sun, 24 Oct 2021 at 11:49, Richard Shann <richard@rshann.plus.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2021-10-24 at 10:58 +0300, Lib Lists wrote:
> > I can test in a few hours, but I'm not sure how to update from
> > source.
> > Should I simply repeat the steps here: http://www.denemo.org/hacking-
> > sources/
> >
> > 1. git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/denemo.git
>
> if you have already done that then you just need to do
> git checkout master
> in the directory that you git cloned to.

I got this message:
~/denemo$ git checkout master
Already on 'master'
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.

Am I missing something?

>
> > 2. follow the build instructions?
>
> then
>
> ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make
>
> and without even installing you can run
>
> ./src/denemo
>
> to test it out.
>
> see below from tar ball
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Lib
> >
> > On Sun, 24 Oct 2021 at 02:56, Robert Lewis <lewis.r@rogers.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > On Saturday, October 23, 2021 6:15:48 P.M. ADT Richard Shann wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 2021-10-23 at 20:14 +0300, Lib Lists wrote:
> > > > > On Sat, 23 Oct 2021 at 20:04, Richard Shann <richard@rshann.plu
> > > > > s.com>
> > > > >
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > [...]
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks to both of you for your replies
> > > > > > I'm confident it is the same problem: and putting all your
> > > > > > information
> > > > > > together I think the answer will lie in the versions of Gtk
> > > > > > in use.
> > > > > > If
> > > > > > you can run the command
> > > > > >
> > > > > > denemo --version
> > > > > >
> > > > > > in a terminal for each of your configurations it may shed
> > > > > > some
> > > > > > light.
> > > > > > I'm afraid I haven't updated my Debian distro for a good
> > > > > > while (I'm
> > > > > > still on Stretch I think) so it is all too possible that
> > > > > > libevince
> > > > > > has
> > > > > > altered its behavior.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > My output is as follows:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > rshann@debian:~/ denemo --version
> > > > > > GNU Denemo version 2.5.3
> > > > > > Gtk versions runtime: 3.22.11, compiled against: 3.22.11,
> > > > >
> > > > > This is the output I get:
> > > > >
> > > > > GNU Denemo version 2.5.3
> > > > > Gtk versions runtime: 3.24.20, compiled against: 3.24.20,
> > > >
> > > > I've not had any luck trying to find documentation for libevince,
> > > > but I
> > > > have put in a print out of the link that Denemo is trying to
> > > > follow as
> > > > received from libevince when you right click on a note in the
> > > > Print
> > > > View. I've put this into the repository and bumped the
> > > > development
> > > > version to 2.5.4
> > > > If either of you could by any chance rebuild from current master
> > > > with
> > > > this version, right click and read the response in the terminal
> > > > that
> > > > should show where the trouble lies.
> > > >
> > > > Richard
> > >
> > > I'd like to help out, but I've never built software from a master
> > > before -- I
> > > guess it's about time I learned how.  I know I needed the package
> > > "make" (and
> > > installed that), but I'm not sure what other packages I might need.
> > >
> > > I got the denemo-master.tar.gz from the repository and extracted it
> > > into a
> > > temp folder.  From the README.md file I did:   $ ./autogen.sh
> > > and got the following error:
> > >      ~/temp/denemo-master$ ./autogen.sh
> > >        ./autogen.sh: 2: aclocal: not found
> > >
> > > The folder aclocal is in /usr/share/
> > >
> > > What should I do next?
>
> you have to install a whole bunch of stuff
>
> apt-get install guile-2.0-dev libaubio-dev portaudio19-dev libfftw3-dev 
> libgtk-3-dev libxml2-dev automake libtool libgtksourceview-3.0-dev 
> libfluidsynth-dev autoconf libsmf-dev autopoint librsvg2-dev libportmidi-dev 
> libsndfile1-dev libevince-dev librsvg2-dev librubberband-dev intltool 
> gtk-doc-tools
>
> and then
>
> ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make && ./src/denemo
>
> as above.
>
> Overnight I've been mulling this over and one thing to check is to
> export the Print View using the PDF button and then fire up your pdf
> viewer on the resultant pdf file. This should then show the links when
> hovering over a note. The default pdf viewer on my system is "atril"
> and it does show the links, but if your viewer is "evince" and does not
> show the links then that would indicate the problem is with libevince.
> Coincidentally someone submitted a patch for linking Denemo to libatril
> recently which didn't get applied because there wasn't any guarantee
> that the program would work with that alternative library (and even if
> it did, just changing the names would be pointless). It may be
> opportune to look at this again. After all, there must be some reason
> that Debian has a libatril package...
>
> Richard
>
>
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Robert
> > >
> > >
> > >