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kouroukinos77
Hi, I scrolled this website : https://github.com/topics/fediverse
And I See some software like tootle (gtk-based for mastodon reader) and it’s not on the repos of antix … And an another software for share pics is not too in the repo. (pixelfed)
Does I need to make install for create .deb for this ? I want to try to create .deb for share with you… Or install. Thank you.
$ uname -r
4.9.212-antix.1-amd64-smp
Mon retour de inxi -Fxz : https://pastebin.com/kqRMrRZZ
my xmpp : weerbor@jabber.frAnonymous
Each program has different requirements.
Do you understand that pixelfed is a webserver application (built using laravel php libraries), and demands installation, configuration and startup a local webserver? The pixelfed project linked from that fediverse page, it is intended to build a docker-container populated by nginx webserver plus the pixelfed scripts. It is not suited to “packaging as a deb, for share with you”.tootle.
What unique features does it provide, compared to other (packaged, ready to use) mastodon client apps?
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do you know: What is valac? what is meson?
If not, you could (you must) learn about them in order to understand how to “make” an installable tootle app using the project’s source code.
Brian Masinick
I have to admit that I am not familiar with any of these terms.
If I were planning on using any of these I would have to read about everything mentioned here. As it currently is (to me} it may as well be written in Bulgarian.
As skidoo points out, when you get into something that has multiple components that are not familiar, unless you want it to be like working with a foreign language it’s necessary to learn about each part that contributes to the solution (at least the terminology and the primary purpose) otherwise it’s equivalent to communicating in a foreign language without an interpreter to help you understand what is being said.
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Brian MasinickThe “how to build” instructions provided by some software projects are very good (step-by-step details), but the documentation authors often presume that anyone who is interested in self-building already has some degree of familiarity with the “tools of the(ir) trade”.
a frustrating (but funny, in retrospect) example:
The documentation for compiling the’opensnitch’ personal firewall application, which is written in Go (golang), does explain that “installing Go and its dev packages” is a prerequisite…and, in one of the howto steps, the documentation instructs “go get somewidgetlib”.
Okay, that’s a commandline command, ala “apt install suchandsuch” or “git clone suchandsuch”.
When I issued the command, I received an errormessage someting like “get not found. Operation terminated.”Through web searches, I discovered that many others have encountered this stumbling block.
The “get” command is provided by a separate (and manually, optionally installed) “dev package” rather than by the base golang instalalation package.Brian Masinick
@skidoo: Regarding your note indicating that sharing the steps to describe how to install and set up various tools can be extremely challenging to write for a wide audience:
To some, they need every possible instruction; to others, anything other than the location of the tool, code, or object is met with impatience and frustration.
Then there are those of us (like me for example) who usually “understand” the instructions, but are getting increasingly “forgetful” about what we did – or said – maybe just a day ago!
I’m glad that you are able to find some humor in this; I get frustrated with the number of things I’ve been forgetting in recent years. Thanks for your excellence in providing helpful information and even with a bit of “wit” and sense of humor at times too; I appreciate it.
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Brian Masinick
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