Re: [gcmd-usr] Gnome Commander version 1.14.0 released

[Ken Taylor]

Good news and not so good news,

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On Sunday, February 6, 2022 4:43 AM, Uwe Scholz <u.scholz83@gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi Ken!
>
> Am Sun, 06 Feb 2022 02:43:14 +0000 schrieb Ken Taylor via gcmd-users:
>
> > Thanks Uwe,
> > That is great news! Of course there is always something to overcome :-(
> > Building on Ubuntu 20.04 I get this message during ./configure
> > configure: error: Package requirements (glib-2.0 >= 2.66.0) were not met:
> > Requested 'glib-2.0 >= 2.66.0' but version of GLib is 2.64.6
> > It seems that 2.64.6 is the current version for Ubuntu 20.04 which is the 
> > Long Term Support release.
>
> Yes, while using some features provided by the glib library, I had to
> increase the required version to 2.66.
>
> Using ubuntu 21.10 should work, it was tested already. Be aware to
> install "autoconf-archive" if you encounter an error regarding
> AX_COMPARE_VERSION when doing the configre step.
>
> Best
> Uwe
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1.14 built fine on Ubuntu 21.10. Per my old instructions on the web site 
installed:

build-essential itstool gawk libxml2-utils libglib2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev (and I 
had to add) flex

./configure make and sudo make install ran without complaint.

I did find that the issue with checkinstall per the September 21, 2021 warning 
note no longer seems to be an issue. I installed checkinstall and created a 
.deb package without any bad effects. It will install on Mint 20.3 (based on 
Ubuntu 20.04) but gnome-commander will not run.

ken@vmMintMate:~/Desktop$ gnome-commander
gnome-commander: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.29' 
not found (required by gnome-commander)
gnome-commander: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.34' not 
found (required by gnome-commander)
gnome-commander: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.33' not 
found (required by gnome-commander)

I am in the process of migrating my systems to Mint so I guess I will have to 
wait until Ubuntu 22.04 LTS comes out in a couple of months and then Mint will 
build a new release built on that base (I think).

Until then if I want to use the desktop trashcan I guess I will just have to 
use the built in file manager :-(  Actually I rarely use the trash can. When I 
delete something with gnome-commander I want it DELETED.  A really neat trick 
would be an option to securely delete the file, perhaps with shred. However, 
with solid state drives I am not sure how effective that is.

Thanks again for all your great work.

Ken