[SOLVED] suggestion for new package

amaro · 2022-05-20 10:01:53

Hello everybody!

I would like to suggest one package that is available for 'ubuntu' and 'mxlinux' to be adopted by Devuan and made available in the repos.
'foliate' - e-book reader with many features including highlighting and annotations, nice gui, reads most popular formats

Thank you for the excellent distro!

p.s. if this is not appropriate or not allowed, please delete the post.

Last edited by amaro (2022-05-20 10:07:10)

Head_on_a_Stick · 2022-05-21 17:45:40

Can you not just install the .deb from MX? Their bullseye base should be compatible with chimaera but don't add their repositories.

http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/f/f … +1_all.deb

amaro · 2022-05-22 10:13:39

Thank you!
Was not sure about dependencies and compatibility but your word was enough as a guarantee.

p.s. Works fine.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2022-05-22 10:58:43

amaro wrote:

Was not sure about dependencies and compatibility

As long as you just install the .deb (with gdebi or whatever) then it can only be installed if the dependencies are satisfied by what is available from the Devuan repositories.

Adding the MX repositories would cause problems so don't try that.

amaro · 2023-10-04 04:02:29

I would like to suggest another package that is available for Debian

https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/minder

It is a mindmapping tool that I think is better (especially regarding the export option) and more intuitive than 'vym'.
I have just installed it (Chimaera) and it works fine

ain libmarkdown2 libgee-0.8-2  libgranite5
dpkg -i minder_1.9.2-1_amd64.deb

Note: 'ain' is an alias for 'apt install'.

p.s. Is there a thread where suggestions for new packages can be posted?

boughtonp · 2023-10-04 11:20:09

Since Devuan is Debian with systemd removed, all packages available for Debian are already available in Devuan, unless they rely on systemd in a way which cannot be resolved (or maybe can be but hasn't yet).

There is no need to manually install a deb file for packages that exist in Debian.

https://pkginfo.devuan.org/minder

amaro · 2023-10-04 14:10:56

Thank you, boughtonp!
I must have missed it in the 'apt search' results.

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[SOLVED] suggestion for new package

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