Re: ROX-Lib3

On Mon, 18 Oct 2021 00:12:32 +0200
Liam Proven <[email protected]> wrote:

>On Sat, 16 Oct 2021 at 16:02, Will Godfrey <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Looks like I've hit the buffers for anything using ROX-Lib
>> Needed to upgrade to devuan Chimaera for other essential services and there is
>> no pyGTk2 any more.
>>
>> The one I'm particularly sad to lose is Memo :(
>>
>> ROX itself and ROX session are written in C so they should be alright for the
>> foreseeable future.  
>
>Oh dear.
>
>Others are having related problems, e.g.
>
>https://askubuntu.com/questions/1235271/pygtk-not-available-on-focal-fossa-20-04
>
>https://www.cendio.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7508
>
>So it may be able to install an old version from Devuan 1 or 2, or
>even from old Debian repos?
>
>Gtk2 is deprecated now so it's not likely to change much more, I'd think...

I've found a work-round for this with devuan by adding the following two
(somewhat scary) lines to the start of /etc/apt/sources.list

deb [allow-insecure=yes] http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf main non-free contrib

deb-src [allow-insecure=yes] http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf main non-free contrib


After this I could do a re-fetch and install pyGTK2

This probably gives me a couple more years breathing space although I'll have to start
looking for alternatives. Auto mounting USB sticks could be a problem - I've had that
in the past :(

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