Re: Stable version on Manjaro

[T Lee Davidson <t.lee.davidson@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/16/25 5:35 AM, Gianluigi wrote:
> Il 16/01/25 11:01, Benoît Minisini ha scritto:
> > Le 16/01/2025 à 10:35, Gianluigi a écrit :
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > It seems that the instructions on the wiki for installing the stable
> > > version of Gambas are incorrect:
> >
> > These instructions come from the openSuse build server. But they are for
> > ArchLinux, and I thought it would work too for Manjaro...
> >
> > Anyway, you can't install the packages on Manjaro because its poppler
> > library is not on par with the ArchLinux poppler library. :-/
>
> Hi Benoit,
>
> thanks for the reply, so if I understand correctly, the only way to get
> the stable version of Gambas (3.20) is to compile?
>
> Regards
> Gianluigi

Perhaps not the only way, Gianluigi. I tested the idea of upgrading 'poppler' from the testing branch on a Manjaro stable VM.

This is a relatively fresh install so the dependencies are currently few. On this system, there are three packages that depend 
on poppler (Gambas excluded because I removed it for this test): libcupsfilters, poppler-glib, and poppler-qt6. libcupsfilters 
doesn't seem to care what version of poppler is installed, but the other two require 'poppler=24.11.0' making it necessary to 
upgrade them at the same time.

I may have been able to use "packman -U" specifying the testing branch URLs for all three, but that would have made the console 
command line rather long (which would not have been a problem except I have a personal aversion to long command lines). Another 
option may have been using the '--nodeps' option to upgrade each one individually, but I did not want to bypass dependency 
checking for the test. So, I did neither.

Instead, I manually downloaded the poppler, poppler-glib, and poppler-qt6 packages from a testing mirror. (I may have been able 
to use the '--downloadonly' option, but I didn't try that either.) Then, I upgraded those three downloaded packages in one (much 
shorter) command line using "packman -U". They installed with no dependency issues; so I proceeded to install Gambas from OBS 
using the OBS instructions.

Gambas 3.20 installed just fine. It launched and ran a project successfully. Whether or not this procedure would work in the 
future may be doubtful as Manjaro testing does not equate with Arch stable (As I understand it, Manjaro unstable = Arch stable). 
Perhaps upgrading from Manjaro unstable would be more appropriate.


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Lee

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