Re: Gramps Development setup question

I use Mint every day.

 Arnold, let’s take this out of the group, and to an email conversation. I am a long time UNIX developer, and I am glad to help you with the jargon too. If you can run Windows, we can get this done. 

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> On Jan 18, 2022, at 7:35 AM, Ross Gammon <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> And it doesn't help when people post incomplete lines that contain copy and paste errors :-) Sorry.
> 
> I normally edit the sources.list file and copy down the "deb" line, and add "-src" to it. But this is on Debian or Ubuntu.
> 
> You will probably have better mileage with Enno's suggestion, and use the GUI software manager provided with Mint. Go into "settings", and tick the relevant box to use source packages. Sorry, I have never used Mint, so I don't know what software manager/centre they give you by default. Debian & Ubuntu these days just use "Gnome Software" I think. In Ubuntu they also install Gnome Software addons to use Flatpack & Snap packages in addition to the Debian based packages. But there are other Software Managers/installers like Synaptic. This will probably be better than "command line Greek"!
> 
> Ross
> 
>> On 18.01.2022 00.07, Arnold Wiegert wrote:
>> Hi Brad,
>> I much appreciate the explanation. I am much more at home with Windows and
>> find myself dragged to Linux every so often, mainly because I want to use
>> Gramps.
>> Even so, I end up generally installing Mint and therefore many of the  code
>> words are just 'Greek' to me, which all too often makes it next to
>> impossible to interpret some of the tech jargon which is 'obvious' to Linux
>> users. :-)
>> 
>>> On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 2:28 PM Brad Rogers <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Mon, 17 Jan 2022 13:54:34 -0800
>>> Arnold Wiegert <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello Arnold,
>>> 
>>>> What does  'buster' or  'stable' do?
>>>> You used neither in the example - why not? and why 'testing'?
>>> buster is a Debian code name (obviously).  You have to let {your choice
>>> of package manager} know which version of Debian you're using (again,
>>> obvs).
>>> 
>>> Most people tend to use the code name for their preferred version of
>>> Debian (buster, stretch, jessie, etc.), and when Debian is updated to a
>>> new version, they perform a dist-upgrade.
>>> 
>>> Some of us (more reckless types) prefer to stay on testing, or sid
>>> (unstable) and we use either 'testing' or 'sid' for version.  This
>>> avoids the necessity for performing a dist-upgrade, but can have
>>> unforeseen side-effects.  Using 'stable' for the example was a bad idea
>>> on my part, and should be ignored.
>>> 
>>> I'll say no more on the subject here, because it's really already going
>>> beyond the scope of the Gramps ML.
>>> 
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