Re: Frescobaldi 3.0 CRASHES

2017-12-10 Thread bb
Concerning LTS ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus) and 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) do not offer LTS and never had! As I used it , I had no problems but never got frescobaldi 3.0.0 running. It did not work on "16" either! Obviously "17" is a version "in between" the LTS releases. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Rele

Re: Frescobaldi 3.0 CRASHES

2017-12-09 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Simon, Well, 16.04 is a long term support (LTS) release which companies seem to like. But there is nothing wrong therefore with 17.10. I find it to be really stable and trouble free, and superior in may ways - else why would they release it?. Still cant get Frescobaldi 3 running on it, but I

Re: Frescobaldi 3.0 CRASHES

2017-12-09 Thread David Wright
On Sat 09 Dec 2017 at 09:11:58 (-0500), Ben wrote: > On 12/9/2017 9:03 AM, Simon Albrecht wrote: > > > >>However, weren't you one of those who "enjoyed" the fun of a > >>major version update? ;-) > > > >Yes, I was. But I think I know how to avoid that ‘fun’ in future: > >having a separate home part

Re: Frescobaldi 3.0 CRASHES

2017-12-09 Thread Ben
On 12/9/2017 9:03 AM, Simon Albrecht wrote: However, weren't you one of those who "enjoyed" the fun of a major version update? ;-) Yes, I was. But I think I know how to avoid that ‘fun’ in future: having a separate home partition now, I’d just overwrite the old version and install the new o

Re: Frescobaldi 3.0 CRASHES

2017-12-09 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 09.12.2017 09:22, Urs Liska wrote: Until now I’ve stuck to my resolve to not open that can of potential problems coming with less stable Ubuntu versions. How much of a risk is there? In general or specifically for LilyPond? Frescobaldi has the discussed issue,*compiling* LilyPond is pretty

Re: Frescobaldi 3.0 CRASHES

2017-12-09 Thread Blöchl Bernhard
I am just jumping into that thread and have not read the rest of the conversation. I did not get to run frescobaldi 3.0.0 on my Linux mate 17.04, python-ly did not work which version ever i tried. I installed Linux mint 18.2 Sonja 64 bit a couple of weeks ago and gave frescobaldi 3.0.0 another

Re: Frescobaldi 3.0 CRASHES

2017-12-09 Thread Noeck
> Until now I’ve stuck to my resolve to not open that can of potential > problems coming with less stable Ubuntu versions. How much of a risk is > there? Hi Simon, I had small issues (like this Frescobaldi one, not working switch user, some missing icons for non-gnome applications) with almost an

Re: Frescobaldi 3.0 CRASHES

2017-12-09 Thread Urs Liska
Am 9. Dezember 2017 09:17:21 MEZ schrieb Simon Albrecht : >On 09.12.2017 00:56, Noeck wrote: >>> I'm not too familiar with Ubuntu's update path, but is it possible >for >>> you to upgrade to 17.04 - maybe the poppler issue has been resolved >in >>> later releases? Just an idea for testing. If yo

Re: Frescobaldi 3.0 CRASHES

2017-12-09 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 09.12.2017 00:56, Noeck wrote: I'm not too familiar with Ubuntu's update path, but is it possible for you to upgrade to 17.04 - maybe the poppler issue has been resolved in later releases? Just an idea for testing. If you're not wanting to leave your older-but-stable OS, I totally understand.