Re: No package for Gforth in Debian Pixie and LMDE 7, will not build from tarball

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From: Bernd Paysan <[email protected]>
To: gforth-mXXj517/[email protected]
Cc: dave selby <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 15:51:11 +0200
Message-ID: <13861587.hzESeGDPOM@wukong>
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Am Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2025, 15:44:15 Mitteleurop=C3=A4ische Sommerzeit s=
chrieb=20
dave selby:
> Hello
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> Unfortunately Gforth is no longer a package in debian pixie and also LMDE
> 7, I believe this is the debian tracker for the package.
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gforth
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> I tried downloading 0.7.3 (Latest release) and also later versions of
> the traball from https://gforth.org/ and followed the instructions.
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> The first issue was
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> dave@HP-ProBook-450G3:~/Downloads/gforth-0.7.9_20230129$ sudo
> ./install-deps.sh
> [sudo] password for dave:
> /usr/bin/sudo
> ./install-deps.sh: 122: install_linuxmint: not found
> ./install-deps.sh: 119: install_gforth_linuxmint: not found
> /usr/bin/sudo
> /usr/bin/nproc
> ./install-swig.sh: 5: git: not found
> ./install-swig.sh: 6: cd: can't cd to swig
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> So I modified ./install-deps-sh and renamed =E2=80=9Clinuxmint=E2=80=9D t=
o =E2=80=9Cdebian=E2=80=9D in the
> code as $OS =E2=80=9Clinuxmint=E2=80=9D is not supported. I ran it again =
and =E2=80=A6
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> Reading state information... Done
> Package libpcre3-dev is not available, but is referred to by another
> package.
> This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
> is only available from another source
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> E: Package 'libpcre3-dev' has no installation candidate
> Reading package lists... Done
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> it continued but ended with =E2=80=A6
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> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Unable to locate package gforth
> E: Unable to locate package gforth-lib
> E: Unable to locate package gforth-common
> /usr/bin/sudo
> /usr/bin/nproc
> ./install-swig.sh: 5: git: not found
> ./install-swig.sh: 6: cd: can't cd to swig
> /usr/bin/sudo
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> I currently use LMDE 7, but as I understand it the same issue will be
> present in Debian Pixie.
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> Can anybody advise on how to get Gforth to install ?

The Dockerfile in docker/builder contains replacements for Trixie/Forky, i.=
e.=20
downloads the missing packets as source and installs them from source.  I'l=
l=20
take that and put it into the install_debian script, too.

And apparently you don't have git installed, but it's needed, too; so I'll =
add=20
git to the packages needed.

=2D-=20
Bernd Paysan
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