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Started 11 years ago by CamiloMM
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CamiloMM

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I've set up SliTaz on my girlfriend's PC, and I'm trying to get the last application missing for her running, namely Tomboy.

There doesn't seem to be a package for it so I'm planning to compile it by myself (If I can manage that, because the biggest I've ever compiled successfully was FontForge), but I'd like to know what would be the pitfalls if anyone knows or if anyone managed to do it already.

Also, since there's a Mono package, why not include Tomboy? It's lightweight AFAIK.

Oh and this is on Cooking because it has Gimp 2.8, kudos people! Gimp 2.8 is a bitch to compile and you guys provide it on your repos, thank you very much!

Posted 11 years ago #
CamiloMM

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Ok I'm having problems. The configure script throws this:
configure: error: gnome-doc-utils >= 0.17.3 not found
...But I have installed gnome-doc-utils and gnome-doc-utils-dev and it still gives the error.

Anyone has any idea about why it would still complain?

Posted 11 years ago #
mojo

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Is the version >= 0.17.3 ?
Do you have pkg-config installed?

Posted 11 years ago #
CamiloMM

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Yes, I'm using cooking so gnome-doc-utils is 0.20.6.

Yay, installing pkg-config did it! Thanks a lot Mojo. I'll keep going and post the progress.

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Ok, next stone in the road:

configure: error: Package requirements (mono >= 1.9.1) were not met:

No package 'mono' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables MONO_CFLAGS
and MONO_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

But, I have mono 2.10.8 installed...

Posted 11 years ago #

mojo

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Verify the system has /usr/lib/pkgconfig/mono.pc
Did you install mono-dev, it has the pkgconfig files.

Posted 11 years ago #
CamiloMM

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Yes it has... hey! I've set execute access for it (chmod a+x) and now that error is gone. I'll mail the mono-dev package mantainer to tell him maybe this file should be executable by default (it wasn't).

(and yes, I had mono-dev just installed as well)

Thanks again Mojo, you're a guru :)

(but I'm still on the compilation-error-solving process, I'll post further progress)

Posted 11 years ago #
CamiloMM

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Now I need dbus-sharp and dbus-sharp-glib, I guess I'd have to compile them...

Or, I wonder if I could get away with grabbing an rpm/deb and converting it to a tazpkg...

And it gets even more confusing, because I don't know if this is supposed to be what I need: http://www.ndesk.org/DBusSharp
I guess it is, but here it says that dbus-sharp is a fork of ndesk-dbus:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/quantal/+package/libdbus-glib1.0-cil

I'm confused. :/
I guess I'll download the NDesk one.

Posted 11 years ago #
Trixar_za

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You know, there is a C++ written version of Tomboy notes named Gnote which can be used as a drop in replacement (and in fact some distros have done so). You'll probably have better luck getting it to work.

Posted 11 years ago #
CamiloMM

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But does it import Tomboy notes? In this case she haves some number of notes in ~/.tomboy from a previous Ubuntu.

And by the way, I now get a
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_datalist_get_data
when I try to run GTK+ apps like leafpad and beaver. I guess this has something to do with re-installing gtk+ (in the sense of get-install gtk+).
Luckily this was being done on a VM, since now after a reboot I can't even use the system. :(

But if you tell me Gnote can import Tomboy's notes I'll (try to) compile that instead.

Posted 11 years ago #
Trixar_za

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According to the author of Gnote, it can import Tomboy Note files and uses the same format. He just doesn't guarantee it will always work the other way around (importing Gnote created files into the Tomboy).

Posted 11 years ago #
CamiloMM

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Ah, thanks Trixar, this is very good! It's a Tomboy in C++, it's so nice for the current situation. I think it even deserves a place in the repository. I'll report compilation progress as I get to it.

Posted 11 years ago #
Trixar_za

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Yeah, only there is a slight problem. It needs GTK3 to work properly and we're still on GTK2. You can google around and find a copy of gnote-0.7.5 which still uses GTK2. It also has the requirement of libdbus-c++ which is not in SliTaz's repository. *Sigh* Tomboy and it's C++ port is a pain to get working :/

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CamiloMM

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Ah, that's sad, maybe I should try again with Tomboy? Or does it share the same GTK3 dependency? If not (and if you've tried) I'd like to know what you've stumped upon.

Thanks for the heads-up :)

Posted 11 years ago #
CamiloMM

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Ok, I managed to get this to fire up: http://sourceforge.net/projects/portable/files/Gnote%200.5.2/download

It is a "portable" Gnote 0.5.2 (project looks discontinued).

It "just" needed:

- gtkspell
- GConf
- libffi.so.5 (just symlink it from libffi.so.6)
- libgnomeui
- pcre
- elfutils
- libgnome-keyring
- libaudiofile.so.0 (again, symlink from libaudiofile.so.1)
- p11-kit

Then after that it loads, but it throws a lot of this at the command line:

GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; the most common cause is a missing or misconfigured D-Bus session bus daemon. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: GetIOR failed: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process /usr/lib/GConf/gconfd-2 exited with status 127)

(Copied over and over).
(This also happens if I run gconftool-2 --spawn, I have no idea about it because I don't even know what be a gconf thing)

This was done on a fresh cooking, so you can try it if you want. So far it looks like it works despite the errors.

And even if it is an old version, not having to recompile it was neat, plus it looks like it has all the needed stuff on it. It looks like if it was Tomboy! Nice port.

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