Re: New information (success report) for Frescobaldi 3 and the Ubuntu 16.04 repositories

[Vaughan McAlley]

On 15 January 2018 at 07:58, Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:

Am 11. Januar 2018 05:38:29 MEZ schrieb Vaughan McAlley <address@hidden>:
>On 8 Jan 2018 12:35 p.m., "Andrew Bernard" <address@hidden>
>wrote:
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>Hi Urs and All,
>
>A totally successful install on a new Ubuntu 17.10 pristine image. All
>works fine as per the source installations now updated.
>
>A large vote of thanks to all who untangled this ball of wool. Despite
>a
>lifetime of software development experience, I kept going round in
>circles
>and never got it working. A big achievement and well done to you all.
>
>Andrew
>
>
>
>On 7 January 2018 at 20:38, Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> I've done a new iteration on the Wiki page. I've also added a concise
>> walkthrough at the end that leaves out all the explanations and
>>
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>It's good to know it's possible. Does anyone know whether a failed
>installation of Frescobaldi 3 endangers a working 2.20 installation?
>
>Vaughan

More concrete information: it is perfectly possible to install both F2 and F3 side by side -wherever the necessary packages are available. All Ubuntus since 16.04, and Debian 8-9. Debian 10 doesn't support F2 anymore.

I'll update the F2 wiki ASAP, although I don't consider supporting F2 a priority.

Urs

Thanks Urs. As it turned out, I looked up my Debian version and realised that Debian 9 was now stable. So I upgraded, not as carefully as I should have, and got a non-booting version of Debian 9. It looked easier to reinstall Debian 9, so after I did that
> sudo aptitude install frescobaldi

...installed Frescobaldi 3 flawlessly. So no need for Frescobaldi 2.But you would only ever need one at a time.

Also, with a non-booting system, I spent some time on the Fedora partition I use for testing. Frescobaldi 3 installed easily that too. So it seems easy enough on “fresh” systems.

I have had similar problems to Andrew with VLC. After trying to install some unusual codec or something I got stuck in an incompatible dependency vortex that I couldn’t escape from. Not fun.

Vaughan