On Monday, July 08, 2013 13:07:46, James E. LaBarre wrote:
> Some time back I had created some "web photo albums" with Booh, which I
> burned to CDs for a family reunion.  My brother wanted to do another
> disk, and I was looking for what to use this time (OK, he's on Windows
> XP, so the tool he'd use wouldn't be for this forum).  In case I
> couldn't find something he could use, I figured I'd hunt down what I had
> used before.
> 
> Once I tracked down and installed Booh, however, I found it didn't work
> with Ruby 1.9, and was looking for Ruby 1.8 files.  Mint14 doesn't have
> an installable version of Ruby 1.8 (it lists a package, but the repos
> are missing a lot of the pieces),

Since Mint is based on Debian, perhaps you could see if the ruby1.8 packages 
in Debian will work on Mint, or if the ruby1.8 source packages can be 
built/rebuilt for Mint.  I'll give you a link to the ruby1.8 package at 
snapshot.debian.org:

  http://snapshot.debian.org/package/ruby1.8/

"one directory up" to see a list of all packages starting with "r" (which 
should include ruby packages):

  http://snapshot.debian.org/package/?cat=r

> and the source doesn't compile under
> Ruby 1.9.  So I need to find something that works *like* Booh, but is
> currently under development/maintenance (the last release was from July
> 2010).

In Debian this situation is referred to as "dead upstream".  This happens 
often (basically it's an eventuality) and it can be frustrating.

> That means the resultant photo album can be viewed offline (from
> CD), and needs to have free-form text for each photo (for the
> information & names on the backs of the photographs), and ideally should
> link to the original full-size scans on the CD.

I don't make photo albums, so I don't know of a "work-alike" alternative.  
However I'm willing to help with the "get the 

  -- Chris

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