On 05/26/2017 09:15 AM, Bill Barry wrote:
> On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 5:34 AM, Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote:
>
>> Though a computer _user_ from vacuum tube era, I'm still new to Linux.
>> I run Debian Stretch (Testing) and typically install using Synaptic or
>> apt-get.
>>
>> I am currently running Tomboy 1.14.1 from the Debian repository and wish
>> to run the latest version from upstream. There is not a .deb package for
>> it. I have downloaded & extracted
>> <https://download.gnome.org/sources/tomboy/1.15/tomboy-1.15.8.tar.xz>
>> to a directory set aside for non-Debian software.
>>
>> What to do after having backed-up my existing notes?
>>
>> I suspect it's only a couple of commands.
>> What I'm looking for is some documentation describing the process.
>> A cookbook solution would be nice but my goal is to know what I'm doing.
>>
>> My motto is "If retirement isn't for education, what use is it?"
>>
>> TIA
>>
>>
> While there may not be a deb package, it is possible that you can
> build one > from the source. Try this
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/BuildingTutorial
>
GROSS overkill and may not be applicable to MY goals.
It may have given hint for solving an unrelated problem that's been
bugging me for eons.
Upstream considers the supplied file (once extracted) to be satisfactory
for a typical user to trivially install tomboy. There are lots of
scripts in top level. But I've no idea of which to run in what order.
richard@stretch-2nd:/usr/local/common/tomboy/tomboy-1.15.8$ dir
--group-directories-first
data test compile configure intltool-extract.in
Makefile.in README
help Tomboy config.guess configure.ac intltool-merge.in
Makefile.include tomboy.doap
libtomboy aclocal.m4 config.h.in COPYING intltool-update.in
missing tomboy.spec
m4 AUTHORS config.rpath depcomp ltmain.sh NEWS
tomboy.spec.in
po ChangeLog config.sub install-sh Makefile.am
pot-update.in
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