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

could you host the appimage somewhere so we can download it?

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Linux Mint 22.3