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Hi, author of Foliate here. It sounds like you're using something like Ubuntu 16.04 or similar? Foliate currently requires GJS >= 1.52 and Meson >= 0.40. There's an open issue here on supporting older systems: https://github.com/johnfactotum/foliate/issues/45
I'm using Debian 9.8 Stretch, released in February.
Yeah, that's not how Debian stable works.
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I'm using Debian 9.8 Stretch, released in February.
> released in February. Yeah, that's not how Debian stable works.
Ecosystems are tough. I'd never used meson, so I installed it using apt-get. I tried to build Foliate, and got an error about wrong arguments to `project()`. Searching for the error brought results about a wrong version, so I uninstalled meson and reinstalled it using pip. The installation completed fine. I went to run Foliate (com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate, if that wasn't somehow obvious), and I got an error from…
> Searching for the error brought results about a wrong version One of the bullet points from the Meson website: > * fun! So if I understand correctly, this modern build tool created to replace all the extant time-wasting build tools got memorialized in Debian in a half-baked state where it's not compatible with future versions. Also-- the fact that you had to leave the hardened bank vault of apt through the screen d…
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This scheme of naming binaries is popular amongst Elementary os apps. Maybe that's were the Dev took the idea from. I don't mind it, and if it bothers you, you can easily alias it to something else
It is a scheme used by Flatpak. The package prefix is mandatory, in order for flatpaks not to stomp on each other.
I'm using Linux and trying to find a e-reader recently. Here is what I tested on Arch: Calibre: Failed to open Okular: Ugly, cannot modify margin bookworm: No two-page view, only scrolling-mode, and scrolling-mode cannot get the reading progress zathura: too simplify resulting in not know how to use lector: cannot recognize epub...... Buka: cannot open the book. (I don't get the logic flow, create a list first, then…
It does 2 page view, optionally shows progress, and with the mupdf backend supports epub and pdf and a few more.
Now it doesn't support mobi but calibre can automatically create an epub from the mobi on import.
Calibre is still useful in 17 different ways even if you don't actually use it to read the book.
I'm using Linux and trying to find a e-reader recently. Here is what I tested on Arch: Calibre: Failed to open Okular: Ugly, cannot modify margin bookworm: No two-page view, only scrolling-mode, and scrolling-mode cannot get the reading progress zathura: too simplify resulting in not know how to use lector: cannot recognize epub...... Buka: cannot open the book. (I don't get the logic flow, create a list first, then…
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> released in February. Yeah, that's not how Debian stable works.
It's when the point release was done[0]. Obviously not everything was new then. I'm assuming most people who package applications for Linux have an understanding of how Debian works. [0]: https://www.debian.org/News/2019/20190216
Nothing was! Debian stable doesn't update packages (not even minor releases or bugfixes). They only backport security fixes or very critical bugfixes.
Debian 9 was freezed on 2017-02-05. You'll have the version of every package from this date, point release don't change that.
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It is a scheme used by Flatpak. The package prefix is mandatory, in order for flatpaks not to stomp on each other.
To be exact Flatpak only requires that for exported data files. Since binaries are not exported they can be named anything.
I'm using Linux and trying to find a e-reader recently. Here is what I tested on Arch: Calibre: Failed to open Okular: Ugly, cannot modify margin bookworm: No two-page view, only scrolling-mode, and scrolling-mode cannot get the reading progress zathura: too simplify resulting in not know how to use lector: cannot recognize epub...... Buka: cannot open the book. (I don't get the logic flow, create a list first, then…
I've never personally used it for epub, but apparently mupdf works with epub files. It's my go-to PDF viewer at least. Just be sure to read the man pages as most operations are keyboard hotkeys.
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> I tought Vala was the cool language for that kind of apps... I think you’re about ten years behind the trend.
Nope, new applications are commonly being written in Vala. For example bookworm, a GTK eBook viewer.