On 01/16/2018 03:51 PM, Michael Lange wrote:
On Tue, 16 Jan 2018 15:29:57 -0600
Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote:
On 01/16/2018 04:17 AM, Michael Lange wrote:
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To the OP:
a quick web search showed another alternative that (iirc) has not been
mentioned before, see http://bluegriffon.org/ . I don't know anything
about this program, except that it appears to be commercial but open
source and they have a deb package available (which may or may not
work with debian) and it apparently can be used for free with a
somewhat reduced feature set.
That looks interesting. The only problem is I'm still using i386 flavor.
Maybe you could try to build from source? The instructions at
https://github.com/therealglazou/bluegriffon
at a quick glance look quite detailed, and I assume you are not
interested in the expensive extra-features from the binary packages
anyway?
Thank you.
The original problem which originally prompted me to investigate
"dpkg -i" has been resolved.
*HOWEVER* your post leads to solving a more important problem.
It has been suggested several times "to build from source". I couldn't
find instructions suitable to my lack of background. The closest I've
come was working in 8080 assembler ~40 years ago ;} Your reference and
the educational material at https://www.mercurial-scm.org/ should
resolve that problem.
Or, the (maybe) easier way, try to pick one of the older releases from
http://bluegriffon.org/freshmeat/ and see if one of these can be installed
and run on your system (2.3.1 appears to be the latest that comes with a
386 deb).
Regards
Michael
