* tony Hamilton <shaky.st...@ntlworld.com> [02-12-20 19:20]: > I am sorry to appear very stupid, but I can find no PDF in the first > referenced link at github. > > And to appear even more stupid, I cannot find what I would call an > installable version of DT 3.0.0 for use with Linux. I have no idea what a > tarball is, but I think that what I would get, were I able to download it, > is the source code. This is of no use to me: after trying repeatedly over > more than 10 years I have never once successfully compiled a linux app, for > very clear reasons: there are ALWAYS mistakes in the contents of the source > package, or the developer has made assumptions about the environment of my > system which are not valid, or I cannot understand the process (which is > usually not defined) or some unexpected error occurs, with a resulting error > message which is totally foreign to me. Is there not some sort of readily > accessible repository for DT 3.0.0 which I can access? If this is not > available (because it represents too much work), then it is to difficult for > me too. I am a user of DT, not a developer. > > Further more, the referenced link to github has, at that location, a link > to another location from which should be able to download the source - > except that this link merely references itself, so I never find the code for > DT 3.0.0 or the PDF which describes the application. > > What am I doing wrong? > > Tony Hamilton > > On 12/02/2020 12:08, Pascal Obry wrote: > > Thanks to Matt Maguire for building a script to build the documentation > > we are now in better shape to build it. > > > > So I have created the PDF which can be downloaded here: > > https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-3.0.0 > > > > And the online documentation has also been updated for 3.0: > > > > https://darktable.gitlab.io/doc/index.html > > > > All the links will soon be updated on darktable.org. > > > > Note that the 3.0 documentation is not finalized yet. > > > > Have a nice day!
Have absolutely no idea what you are doing wrong. The darktable web site prominently lists a url to access the 3.0 version manual in pdf form: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/download/release-3.0.0/darktable-usermanual.pdf just download it and view in your preferred pdf viewer, I user acroread and mupdf openSUSE Tumbleweed. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
