Re: [PLUG] Linux newbie needs guidance

2017-05-26 Thread Tom
Rich Shepard's instructions were pretty accurate. It is pretty standard build and install process. I would encourage you to try it after reading the document in the README file you listed. The only complication might be missing dependencies which you will need to install using apt-get. You can find

Re: [PLUG] Linux newbie needs guidance

2017-05-26 Thread David Fleck
On Fri, 2017-05-26 at 11:16 -0700, Ali Corbin wrote: > On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 8:04 AM, Richard Owlett > wrote: > > 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

Re: [PLUG] Linux newbie needs guidance

2017-05-26 Thread Ali Corbin
On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 8:04 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: 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/

Re: [PLUG] Linux newbie needs guidance

2017-05-26 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/26/2017 09:15 AM, Bill Barry wrote: > On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 5:34 AM, Richard Owlett 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

Re: [PLUG] Linux newbie needs guidance

2017-05-26 Thread Bill Barry
On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 5:34 AM, Richard Owlett 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

Re: [PLUG] Linux newbie needs guidance

2017-05-26 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/26/2017 07:47 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 26 May 2017, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> >> What to do after having backed-up my existing notes? > >1. unxz tomboy-1.15.8.tar.xz >2. tar xvf tomboy-1.15.8.tar >3. c

Re: [PLUG] Linux newbie needs guidance

2017-05-26 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 26 May 2017, Richard Owlett wrote: > > What to do after having backed-up my existing notes? 1. unxz tomboy-1.15.8.tar.xz 2. tar xvf tomboy-1.15.8.tar 3. cd to the directory with the untarred source code 4

[PLUG] Linux newbie needs guidance

2017-05-26 Thread Richard Owlett
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