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

From	Paul <nospam@needed.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.os.linux.mint
Subject	Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader
Date	2026-05-01 11:25 -0400
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On Thu, 4/30/2026 11:45 PM, CtrlAltDel wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:51:21 -0700, 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.
> 
> I really appreciate the information and the time you took to provide it, 
> Mike, but that seems like an awful lot to do. And then, even if I could 
> miraculously make it operational, it would probably interfere the next 
> time I updated Mint.
> 

Not necessarily.

You can run it right from the build directory.

The amount of error messages will tell you how close you are getting :-)

   Paul

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  Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-04-30 17:56 +0000
    Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-04-30 12:13 -0700
      Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader CtrlAltDel <Altie@BHam.com> - 2026-04-30 23:37 +0000
        Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-04-30 17:35 -0700
          Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-04-30 18:51 -0700
            Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader CtrlAltDel <Altie@BHam.com> - 2026-05-01 03:45 +0000
              Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-05-01 08:22 -0700
                Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-05-01 10:05 -0700
                Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-05-02 11:21 -0700
                Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-05-02 15:15 -0400
                Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader CtrlAltDel <Altie@BHam.com> - 2026-05-03 05:18 +0000
                Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-05-03 05:20 -0400
              Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-05-01 11:25 -0400
            Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-05-01 11:20 -0400
            Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader Axel <none@not.here> - 2026-05-03 12:48 +1000
              Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-05-03 06:09 -0400
                Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-05-03 18:23 +0000
              Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-05-03 09:10 -0700
                Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-05-03 18:12 +0000
                Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-05-03 12:11 -0700
                Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-05-05 11:24 -0700
                Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-05-05 15:46 -0400
                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
        Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-05-01 01:29 +0000
          Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader CtrlAltDel <Altie@BHam.com> - 2026-05-01 23:54 +0000
            Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-05-02 00:16 +0000
    Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader CtrlAltDel <Altie@BHam.com> - 2026-04-30 23:23 +0000
      Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-05-01 01:38 +0000
        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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