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[I7-2037] [Mantis 2074] gnome-inform7 depends on obsolete libraries #47

Closed curiousdannii-testing closed 2 years ago

curiousdannii-testing commented 2 years ago

Reported by : adam

Description :

Gnome-inform7 requires libgoocanvas3, but it depends on libgoocanvas-common, which stopped existing after xenial.

Installation works if you manually install:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/xenial/amd64/libgoocanvas-common/1.0.0-1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/bionic/amd64/libgoocanvas3/1.0.0-1

first, but it would be nice to rebuild on Ubuntu 18.04 with a set of libraries that are installable from the distribution.

Steps to reproduce :

Try to install the gnome-inform7 .deb on Ubuntu 18.04.

Additional information :

Reported to me by Cesare Zavattari (cesare@ctrl-z-bg.org)

imported from: [Mantis 2074] gnome-inform7 depends on obsolete libraries
  • status: Closed
  • resolution: Duplicate
  • resolved: 2022-04-07T05:02:42+10:00
  • imported: 2022/01/10
curiousdannii-testing commented 2 years ago

557058:4c095ffd-6d6f-47ce-9e73-77c613347b86:

Comment by pchimento :
Thanks for the report. This will be fixed as part of #197.

In the meantime thanks to lunasspecto, Inform is now available as a Flatpak from flathub.org, and that is supported on most major Linux distributions from the last two years or so.

curiousdannii-testing commented 2 years ago

557058:4c095ffd-6d6f-47ce-9e73-77c613347b86:

Comment by pchimento :
Sorry, I meant #1997.

curiousdannii-testing commented 2 years ago

557058:4c095ffd-6d6f-47ce-9e73-77c613347b86:

Comment by vaughany :
There's no 'this affects me too' button here as I have seen in other places, however I wanted to simply add my voice to this issue: as reported, my main computer is now based on Ubuntu 18.04 and Inform 7 is no longer installable.

curiousdannii-testing commented 2 years ago

557058:4c095ffd-6d6f-47ce-9e73-77c613347b86:

Comment by gmwb :
I hope this is informative and not counted as spam, but I'll just add that it affects me too. Also, thank you OP for the workaround.

curiousdannii-testing commented 2 years ago

557058:4c095ffd-6d6f-47ce-9e73-77c613347b86:

Comment by lunasspecto :
I'm currently having trouble installing gnome-inform7 on Fedora 29 because I can't install WebKit 1; some searching suggests WebKit 1 is now considered insecure, but WebKit 2 only supports GTK3.

So getting gnome-inform7 packaged for recent versions of Fedora may necessitate bumping it up to GTK3, which is not entirely trivial.