Re: Stable version on Manjaro

[Gianluigi <gradobag@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Il 18/01/25 19:38, T Lee Davidson ha scritto:
> 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.
Hi Lee,

thank you for the tests which unfortunately, due to my inability, I was
unable to duplicate, despite your clear instructions.
I think it's too complicated for an unfamiliar user of pacman and
ArchLinux.
All in all the compilation, thanks to the yaml file, remains for me the
simplest way to obtain a complete stable Gambas.
Then for the distribution of Gambas app packages the master repository
seems to work very well.
Now I'm going to sleep

Goodnight (even if I think it's ending for you) :-)
Gianluigi