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Re: Trying to install GEDIT

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From	C W Rose <cwr@seckford.org>
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Subject	Re: Trying to install GEDIT
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jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> wrote:
> Hi folks
> 
> I tried to install the open source package "GEDIT".
> 
> It needed a Tex package, and a Tex installation, what I did download. 
> But then it needs "style sheets" (whatever that may be)
> 
> It crashed during ./autogen.sh with missing xslt-stylesheets.
> 
> So, I cloned
> git clone https://github.com/docbook/xslt10-stylesheets.git
> 
> OK
> 
> Bu then it says it needs perl package xml-xpath. I figured out that issuing
> sudo apt-get install libxml-xpath-perl
> 
> would fix that.
> 
> Then it needed to read a file called .xmlc. After an houro so searching 
> I came to see an invisible fdirectory in the download of xstyle-sheets 
> called ".trevis" and ythere I found a xmlc file. I copied that to my 
> home directory and the script went a little bit further.
> 
> A package called "xerces" was needed. I found that and wen further.
> I installed then a package that is called "saxon", that asked for money.
> Happily there is a free version, but apparently it will not work.
> 
...
> 
> If anyone can tell me how to proceed I would be thankful.
> 

On an obsolete Linux system, gedit 2.30.4 builds correctly with
./configure && make.  However, 3.8.3 fails with:

configure: error: Package requirements (
	libxml-2.0 >= 2.5.0
	glib-2.0 >= 2.28.0
	gio-2.0 >= 2.35.4
	gtk+-3.0 >= 3.7.10
	gtksourceview-3.0 >= 3.2.0
	libpeas-1.0 >= 1.7.0
	libpeas-gtk-1.0 >= 1.7.0
	gsettings-desktop-schemas
) were not met:

Requested 'gio-2.0 >= 2.35.4' but version of GIO is 2.34.3
Requested 'gtk+-3.0 >= 3.7.10' but version of GTK+ is 3.4.4
No package 'gtksourceview-3.0' found
No package 'libpeas-1.0' found
No package 'libpeas-gtk-1.0' found

Gnome is notorious for breaking APIs, so unless you want a full Gnome
system, I'd avoid Gedit - or find a 2.x version, which may be easier
to install.  Or check the Elvis source code, if that's your interest.
No modern software documents its structure particularly well; the
documentation is now intended for users, not programmers.

Will

-- 
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking,
 unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
  -- Edward Gibbon

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    Re: Trying to install GEDIT Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2018-10-06 02:34 +0000
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    Re: Trying to install GEDIT jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2018-10-06 09:45 +0200
      Re: Trying to install GEDIT Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2018-10-06 22:13 +1300
      Re: Trying to install GEDIT David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2018-10-06 16:14 +0200
      Re: Trying to install GEDIT scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2018-10-06 14:53 +0000
        Re: Trying to install GEDIT jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2018-10-06 19:42 +0200
  Re: Trying to install GEDIT C W Rose <cwr@seckford.org> - 2018-10-06 20:57 +0100
  Re: Trying to install GEDIT Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2018-10-07 13:48 +0000

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