On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 17:45:19 -0400 mh <mhe...@member.fsf.org> said:

> 
> On 4/18/18 4:56 AM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 09:11:33 +0100 Peter Flynn <pe...@silmaril.ie> said:
> >
> >> Yes, it looks like a build fail.
> >>
> >> Thanks, Carsten, for suggesting dpkg --purge. I had used apt --purge 
> >> but it
> >> seems that doesn't actually purge everything.
> >>
> >> Then reinstalling it worked (with a waning) so now it's back and on hold.
> >>
> >> I know meson is terrribly fashionable these days, but I have tried to get
> >> it to work on at least five Linux distros and it's never worked 
> >> properly --
> >> always been missing some unfindable component.
> > ummm maybe its just the distros you tried that don't stay up to date that
> > easily? at last arch has been smooth sailing on this, but it's a 
> > rolling distro
> > so it stays relatively up to date :)
> 
> 
> I'm running Debian sid and have no problems building with meson. just 

sid is rolling so that should make it good in terms of being up to date

> recompiled new two days ago. unstable and testing are using meson 
> version 0.45.1-2 right now, stable is at 0.37.1-1 . Arch is at version 
> 0.45.1-1 ;)
> 
> 
> >
> >> ///Peter
> >>
> >> On 18 April 2018 03:27:53 Dave <d...@flex.com.au> wrote:
> >>
> >> Weird. I've downloaded and unpacked that deb file. It just contains the
> >> /usr/share/doc/terminology data. No binaries. I'm guessing whoever 
> >> created
> >> it has an automated system for building packages, and it's failing on 
> >> binary
> >> compilation.
> >>
> >> Your old deb files are located in /var/cache/apt/archives . You can 
> >> install
> >> the previous terminology version from there via dpkg, or download the old
> >> version from the repository. Then you can put the package on "hold" by
> >> running "echo terminology hold | dpkg --set-selections". That'll 
> >> prevent it
> >> from being automatically upgraded.
> >>
> >> Otherwise, you could always compile the latest terminology yourself. It's
> >> not too hard. Though there is an annoying focus bug present in the latest
> >> version, which you may want to avoid until a point release is done.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> dave.k
> >>
> >>
> >> In the year 2018, of the month of April, on the 17th day, Peter Flynn 
> >> wrote:
> >> Sorry, this failed to send earlier.
> >>
> >> On 17/04/18 12:12, Peter Flynn wrote:
> >> [...]> 1 not fully installed or removed.
> >> After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
> >> E: Internal Error, No file name for terminology:amd64
> >>
> >> Does anyone know where I can get it in a .deb form that won't vanish
> >> at an update
> >>
> >> I did some digging into
> >> http://ppa.launchpad.net/niko2040/e19/ubuntu/pool/main/t/terminology/
> >> and found that the two most recent .debs are only 11Kb, which must
> >> surely be an error.
> >>
> >> terminology_1.2.0-0artful0_amd64.deb 2018-04-15 19:20 5.7M
> >> terminology_1.2.0-0bionic0_amd64.deb 2018-04-15 19:52 5.7M
> >> terminology_1.2.0-0trusty4_amd64.deb 2018-04-15 20:06 11K
> >> terminology_1.2.0-0xenial3_amd64.deb 2018-04-15 20:06 11K
> >>
> >> I've sent Niko an email via launchpad, but does anyone else have a 
> >> solution?
> >>
> >> P
> >>
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