08-31-2017, 07:27 PM
Success! The nudge to use ArchLinux was what set me on the right path to puzzle out what needed to be done.
I used git on the Pinebook to download the source file. Then I unpacked that and ran the update/upgrade/install sudo commands recommended by the download page, which made sure all the dependencies, mostly Python stuff, were there and up to date. Then I told Make to do its thing. It kept telling me there was no UI target. so I told it to rebuild everything anyway. That did not take long so I'm not sure a lot was actually compiled. Manuskript seems to have a lot of Python module source files.
The last piece of the puzzle in porting was figuring out that it was important how you launch the program. By experiment I found you must go through the file manager window, not a terminal window, and you must select the Terminal output option. That opens a terminal window that doesn't find the Spanish translator module, then a desktop program window and you're in business. Any other option or approach to launch seems to result in the program opening a terminal window and aborting, the launch file opened in a text editor, or nothing at all seems to happen.
Although I can live with the current method of launching Manuskript, is there enough information here to figure out what Mate wants done to the desktop icon to make the application launch properly?
I used git on the Pinebook to download the source file. Then I unpacked that and ran the update/upgrade/install sudo commands recommended by the download page, which made sure all the dependencies, mostly Python stuff, were there and up to date. Then I told Make to do its thing. It kept telling me there was no UI target. so I told it to rebuild everything anyway. That did not take long so I'm not sure a lot was actually compiled. Manuskript seems to have a lot of Python module source files.
The last piece of the puzzle in porting was figuring out that it was important how you launch the program. By experiment I found you must go through the file manager window, not a terminal window, and you must select the Terminal output option. That opens a terminal window that doesn't find the Spanish translator module, then a desktop program window and you're in business. Any other option or approach to launch seems to result in the program opening a terminal window and aborting, the launch file opened in a text editor, or nothing at all seems to happen.
Although I can live with the current method of launching Manuskript, is there enough information here to figure out what Mate wants done to the desktop icon to make the application launch properly?
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