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

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On Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:13:18 -0700, Mike Easter wrote:

> rbowman wrote:
>> Current is .165 from 2026-01-14.
>> 
>> Mint is perfectly adequate for most people but if you want cutting
>> edge,
>> Mint ain't it.
> 
> LM's basis is Ub; other than compiling, it uses Ub repo/s and flatpaks,
> and while Ub likes snap, default LM does not.
> 
> The Pan dev/s don't 'bother w/' releasing anything but source. The only
> major distro that 'likes' Pan enough to provide an up-to-date Pan is
> Arch.
> 
> Ub's latest LTS release 'just happened' so LM isn't there yet, so LM is
> using Ub 24.04 repo/s, which is .155.  Sometimes compilers will build
> .deb/s to put into .ppa repo/s, but the Pan .ppa is very old.
> 
> The 'alternate' packagers are snap, flathub and appimage; but I don't
> *think* there is anything useful in there.
> 
> I would say that Pan is 'one of those things' that if you aren't happy
> w/ the available old versions, then you have to compile or use a distro
> w/ it in the repo/s.
> 
> Not being a compiling fan, if I wanted to 'see' Pan's 165 w/o too much
> trouble, I would boot a distro based on Deb testing, such as Sparky,
> which I like anyway. Both Deb testing and unstable repo/s have the Pan
> 165.

Right, Mike, those are the issues I'm encountering exactly.

I can't seem to find a reasonable way to update Pan.  There are no .deb 
packages available for the newer versions of Pan that don't throw up 
dependency errors from here:

https://pkgs.org/download/pan

No PPA's that are maintained and up to date. No Mint flatpak option is 
available.  And I'm not sure that enabling Snap on Mint would give me the 
version of Pan that the latest version of Ubuntu is currently providing.

I'm fairly certain no AppImage of Pan has ever been created, at all.  I 
realize I can use another distro or even just boot from a USB that has 
more up to date distro's on them to be able to use the newer Pan but, that 
defeats the purpose, really.

I don't want to use anything but Mint, like I've been doing since Elyssa. 
Now Mint is telling everyone, on their blog, that Mint 23 based on Ubuntu 
26.04 LTS won't be available until December of '26 or January of '27 as 
they have changed their strategy to longer development cycles. 

So, you know, Pan 0.155 will be over 3 years old by then.  Pimp Ass 
Newsreader is getting a little long in the tooth for me and I was looking 
for a reasonable way to get an updated version while still using Mint.   

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Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader CtrlAltDel <Altie@BHam.com> - 2026-04-30 09:00 +0000
  Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader german newsgroups <usualsuspectrider@gmail.com> - 2026-04-30 12:21 +0200
  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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