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birros / web-archives

A web archives reader
https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.github.birros.WebArchives
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How to compile on Ubuntu 14.04? #3

Closed probonopd closed 4 years ago

probonopd commented 6 years ago

Can you please give step-by-step instructions on how to compile web-archives on Ubuntu 14.04, the currently oldest still-supported version of Ubuntu? Thank you very much.

birros commented 6 years ago

Thank you for your interest, I really appreciate it.

I am so sorry but I'm not sure that WebArchives can works on it, because WebArchives uses Gtk+ features that are missing in the 3.10.8 version of Gtk+ used by Ubuntu 14.04, the flatpaked version of Gtk+ on which WebArchives development is based being 3.22.30.

I am focusing exclusively on the Flatpak environment for the moment, until I have integrated all the features I consider essential to WebArchives.

After this phase, I will consider deploying it directly on major distributions like Ubuntu & Debian.

Sorry...

birros commented 4 years ago

I close this ticket knowing that flatpak is becoming a solution of choice for the installation of apps under Linux, with the appearance of an official Mozilla support for Firefox.

probonopd commented 4 years ago

Likewise, AppImage is becoming a solution of choice for the installation of apps under Linux, with the appearance of e.g., an official LibreOffice support for LibreOffice. Among many others.

birros commented 4 years ago

I agree, the choice to support only Flatpak as a deployment method is arbitrary, I assume.

This method is much simpler, flexible, easily maintainable and targets more than 20 different distributions without worrying about the specificities of each distribution.

In terms of time invested and efficiency I can hardly see any better.

Sorry 🙂