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pascalmania
I’m a newby in the linux world and tried about 10 different distros last month, decided to use Antix, best distro for me and not thinking to change soon.
Brian Masinick
@pascalmania: Welcome to the antiX forum, and thank you for sharing.
Thoughts and comments are important to me and welcome.
Enjoy antiX!
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Xecure
Hello, and welcome.
(please read until the end)
The mysteries of multiple sources… For most new users this is really a difficult thing to understand.antiX runs on Debian Stable. Stable means a bit “older” but reliable software. If one is searching for the newest thing, the bleeding edge, they may need to search elsewhere. Flatpak is an option, and the instructions they publish on their website to install it are well intended, but for for most cases it is overkill. You should skip the second step and only install the flatpak package and add the repository. After that, you should either install from the terminal or from the web browser.
As other suggest, an AppImage (better technology, in my opinion), should also be an option, but the big companies are trying to make their technologies the default (flatpak and snapd), so they can, in the future, become the “steam” of linux software.
It would have been so easy as to go into the Inkscape website and select to download the App Image (https://inkscape.org/release/1.0.1/gnulinux/), first option on the left.Now, the final challenge for the new user of Debian Stable. Understanding that many like you need some specific programs for their day to day (Office programs like libreoffice, Image editors like GIMP, 3D-software like blender, etc.), the Debian group came to create a way to bring the newer software from testing to the stable environment, creating what is known as backports. These are not so stable software, but are highly demanded, so they bring it in as soon as they can. The backports sources are not ON by default, to not break the stable environment, but you can still install software from backports on antiX.
inkscape is one of the programs that has been backported (current version: 1.0.1-2). Open a terminal and install it like this:
sudo apt install -t buster-backports inkscapeWelcome to antiX!
antiX Live system enthusiast.
General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.My native language is not English so I’m trying to learn basics of Linux world and that was extremely helpful, thank you very much.
Xecure
English isn’t my first language either, so I hope it is understandable enough. I sometimes write words in the incorrect order or in a way that may lead to confusion. Please, forgive any slip.
It seems the other posts were moved to a different thread. It is important to try to keep threads separated when trying to get help so others in the future may have an easier time to find answers.
As you are new, I recommend you take a look at some of the guides created by other antiX users in the Tips and Tricks section of the forum (like Short essentials for linux newbies). There is also the antiX FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) that answer other questions specific to the antiX system, and a lot can be learnt from there. Use the translator if things are a bit too complicated in English.
I hope you can enjoy antiX. Any question you have, let us know in a new thread and we will try to help as best we can.
- This reply was modified 2 years, 4 months ago by Xecure. Reason: About creating new threads for help
antiX Live system enthusiast.
General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.Anonymous
By the way. Where did the other post go?
I’m now viewing this topic for the first time. Until I found this quoted bit I was wondering what had led Xecure to mention “flatpak” and “inkscape”.
If the now-missing posts contained hyperlinks…
Yeah, sounds too familiar. The “spamfilter” often quarrantines a post containing links if I try to edit the post.If one is searching for the newest thing, the bleeding edge, they may need to search elsewhere.
FYI (in the absence of those now-missing posts) my reading “heard” the suggestion to search elsewhere as meaning “then choose some other distro, one NOT based on debian stable”.
More often than not across years, when I check the package changelog or changelog at a given software project page, newer has not indicated “better”. I have witnessed much much much flury of activity, across various projects, which amounts to nothing other than addressing break/fix changes ~~ fixing, then re-fixing, breakages which have crept into newer (newer than installed on my system) versions of the software.
you should either install from the terminal or from the web browser.
In the absence of those now-missing posts, this advice seemed too generic, and… too weird. Okay, I now understand, it must have been specific to the ease of obtaining and
installingrunning AppImage-packaged programs.… backports. These are not so stable software, but …
Regardless of missing posts, I would not agree to describing backports as “not so stable” (nor “not as stable”). We can, we must, understand that backported packages will not garner feedback from users on as wide a range of testers (compared to “have been in the repostitory months before Day1 of release, garnering feedback from myriad testers”) but thinking back across several years, I cannot recall noticing misbehavior by any backported package that I installed.
It seems the other posts were moved to a different thread.
aha!
(FWIW, this new detail showed up after I had posted the message)Brian Masinick
“[Solved] antiX Install Issues” contains the moved items in the “Hi everyone”.
We should take further discussions there; I am closing this thread.
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