Geany v1.27 installing from debs

[eadmaster]

is it safe updating Geany from these debs in Puppy Tahr?

The latest pet i've found is the v1.25 (also mirrored here)

[april]

Do you need it updated for some reason? Guess so I only use it as a text editor.

I don't remember if tah has a backup file but do whatever you have to do to backup what you have now, and then ,install it from whatever and tell us how it turns out .

You will be helping us all out that way.

[bigpup]

It should be OK if you can find one that is made for Ubuntu Trusty.

That web page lists one but they are not links to download or I have not figured out how from that web page.

You can also try updating the PPM (Puppy Package Manager) data base and see if the Ubuntu repositories have the Geany updated for download.

[Puppus Dogfellow]

is it safe updating Geany from these debs in Puppy Tahr?

The latest pet i've found is the v1.25 (also mirrored here)

fwiw, i installed a few plugin debs from Xenialpup's PPM, which worked but disabled some of the existing plugins. i then installed the 1.25 plugin pet, which fixed the broken plugins, added one i forgot to add (no change for the spellcheck plugin apparently) when using the PPM, and gave me the one plugin (multi-term1.27) i wanted but was not included in Corvus's pet.

geany's pretty tolerant of mistakes--i've manually swapped in libs and plugin folders with varying degrees of success. if things go badly using that method, just close geany, undo the move, restart geany. since geany's part of the main sfs, it should still be okay after an uninstall in the event you need to remove a newer geany__.pet or geany__.deb

hth.

[musher0]

is it safe updating Geany from these debs in Puppy Tahr?

The latest pet i've found is the v1.25 (also mirrored here)

Hi eadmaster.

What is the glibc version for TahrPup? You can find out in a terminal by typing:

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ldd --version

I'm asking because I compiled one pet for geany 1.27 and one for its plug-ins, for
Slim-6, a trimmed-down Slacko-6.3.0, that does not have Geany by default. Now
Slim-6 has an ldd of 2.17. If TahrPup has the same ldd version or higher, you could
maybe use these Geany pets (if other required libraries are similar on the TahrPup).

But to be frank, cross-"breed" compilations always being a bit touch-and-go, the
simplest way for you to get what you want may well be to compile the geany-1.27
and its plug-ins yourself, from source, directly on your TahrPup. It's not hard at all,
you know. The Geany source code is well put together and easy to compile.
You can get it from here: https://www.geany.org/Download/Releases

I can give you hints on how to do it, if you need some.

BFN.

[eadmaster]

sorry for the late replies!

@bigpup: you can view the deb packages here.

@musher0: ldd (Ubuntu EGLIBC 2.19-0ubuntu6.3) 2.19

I've tried extracting the deb package and started the editor with this portable launcher:

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THIS_SCRIPT_DIR=$(dirname $(readlink -fn $0))
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$THIS_SCRIPT_DIR/lib
$THIS_SCRIPT_DIR/bin/geany --config $THIS_SCRIPT_DIR/config "$@"

The program starts, but when i try to open the configuration window it prints a lot of warnings "Widget not found" and it freeze...
EDIT: it was missing the updated /usr/share/geany/geany.*, so i've made another build that will load that files from another path and now i can test the latest version safely.