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Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader

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On Thu, 4/30/2026 9:51 PM, Mike Easter wrote:
> Mike Easter wrote:
>> Sometimes I'm in the mood for something like that for the experience; since I don't use Pan, if it didn't work out I could just bail.
> 
> I did it.
> 
> I booted a live LM 22.3, used some instructions at gitlab, when that wasn't working out smoothly enough, turned to the gglAIov LLM process for more instructions and compiled pan and installed it; it wasn't in the menu, but I booted it from the commandline and it was 165 seemingly running fine.
> 
> I can make a summary of the process I used:
> 
> I booted live LM 22.3 & went to the Pan gitlab & installed synaptic to use to check what I needed, but it wasn't really helpful. Following instructions at gitlab, in order to get build-dep I needed to add the repo/s for source, which was a pretty extensive operation.
> 
> $ sudo apt-get build-dep pan
> Reading package lists... Done
> E: You must put some 'deb-src' URIs in your sources.list
> 
> I did that w/ software manager.
> $ sudo apt update
> $ sudo apt install build-essential
> build-essential is already the newest version (12.10ubuntu1).
> $ mkdir -p std-build
> $ cmake -B std-build
> Command 'cmake' not found, but can be installed with:
> sudo apt install cmake
> $ sudo apt install cmake
> $ cmake-gui -B std-build
> Command 'cmake-gui' not found, but can be installed with:
> sudo apt install cmake-qt-gui
> Command 'cmake-gui' not found, but can be installed with:
> $ sudo apt install cmake-qt-gui
> Error: could not load cache
> $ sudo apt install build-essential cmake git intltool \
>     libgtk-3-dev libgmime-3.0-dev libgspell-1-dev \
>     libgnutls28-dev libsecret-1-dev libnotify-dev
> $ git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pan
> Cloning into 'pan'...
> warning: redirecting to https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pan.git/
> $ cd pan
> ~/pan$ mkdir build && cd build
> $ cmake ..
> $ make -j$(nproc)
> (very extensive operation)
> 
> Then because Pan wasn't in menu/s, ran command pan.

You'd look to see if it had a desktop file, for menu purposes.
Depending on whether you "install" it or not, the launch path and $CWD may
need to be modified a bit.

*******

This is as far as I got so far.

1) Install UBU2604 in a VM.
2) Need to spruce up the thing.

cd ~/Downloads

sudo apt update
sudo apt install synaptic                 # May need it, to look around at lib-dev tick boxes maybe.
sudo apt install software-properties-gtk
software-properties-gtk                   # tick the "sources" box
sudo apt install dpkg-dev                 # 205 MB   (build-essential might already be in Ubuntu...)
mkdir pan
cd pan

sudo apt build-dep pan                    # Pulls in -dev packages into tree (failure likely, if done in LM223... but maybe)
apt source pan                            # ~/Downloads/pan/pan-0.165 created
cd  pan-0.165
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -nc             # Takes a few minutes.

./debian/pan                              # Example path and materials
./debian/pan/usr/share/doc/pan
./debian/pan/usr/share/bug/pan
./debian/pan/usr/share/help/sv/pan
./debian/pan/usr/share/help/C/pan
./debian/pan/usr/share/help/es/pan
./debian/pan/usr/share/help/cs/pan
./debian/pan/usr/share/help/de/pan
./debian/pan/usr/share/pan
./debian/pan/usr/bin/pan             <=== Executable doesn't seem to have a lot of explicit deps in this tree. Icons, though.
                                          Always with the icons.

    [Picture]  pan-ubu2604.png  (run the pan in that bin)

     https://postimg.cc/vgqfJxZt

-rw-r--r--  1 bullwinkle bullwinkle  2762450 Jan 24 12:33 pan_0.165.orig.tar.gz      \
-rw-r--r--  1 bullwinkle bullwinkle    26224 Jan 24 12:33 pan_0.165-1.debian.tar.xz   \___ Source materials before unpack
-rw-r--r--  1 bullwinkle bullwinkle     1928 Jan 24 12:33 pan_0.165-1.dsc             /

drwxrwxr-x 10 bullwinkle bullwinkle     4096 May  1 06:46 pan-0.165
-rw-r--r--  1 bullwinkle bullwinkle 10115786 May  1 06:47 pan-dbgsym_0.165-1_amd64.ddeb  <=== it made a debug deb
-rw-rw-r--  1 bullwinkle bullwinkle    18137 May  1 06:47 pan_0.165-1_amd64.buildinfo
-rw-rw-r--  1 bullwinkle bullwinkle     1498 May  1 06:47 pan_0.165-1_amd64.changes
-rw-r--r--  1 bullwinkle bullwinkle  1347142 May  1 06:47 pan_0.165-1_amd64.deb        <=== aha, but maybe not quite there

*******
Brought the pan directory over to LM223 and put it in ~/Downloads .
This was back when it had three files and the pan-0.165 directory.
We're going to take Ubuntu folder for build 0.165 into LM223.

sudo apt build-dep pan               # Use whatever pan dependencies are in LM223, close enough.
cd Downloads
cd pan
ls
cd pan-0.165
ls
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -nc        # Nope
apt search libgspell-1-dev           # A missing dependency.
sudo apt install libgspell-1-dev     # Fixed.
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -nc
sudo apt install cmake               # Tool missing, fixed.
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -nc        # Runs to completion.

cd debian/pan/usr/share/             # Not installed, but we'll try anyway. CD to this path "for the icons".
../bin/pan                           # Using hack-path to icons as we are not installed.

Because I used a little more care in my hack-launch, I got icons in this picture :-)
The other picture lacks the icons because I neglected to provide a path to the icons.
That was explained here a bit...

  https://github.com/GNOME/pan/blob/master/README.org

    [Picture]   pan-LM223.png

     https://postimg.cc/WFbKM4bM

It wasn't as neat and tidy as I had hoped.

   Paul

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                Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-05-05 13:40 -0700
                Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-05-05 13:43 -0700
                Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader CtrlAltDel <Altie@BHam.com> - 2026-05-06 07:35 +0000
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        Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader CtrlAltDel <Altie@BHam.com> - 2026-05-01 03:33 +0000
          Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-05-01 04:36 +0000

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