#1712 Easier installation instructions for Linux
After adding the PPA didn't work (see my previous ticket), I'm trying to follow the instructions at https://www.taskcoach.org/download_for_linux.html for Ubuntu. They say,
"Prerequisites
Python 2.6 and wxPython 3.0.0.0-unicode (or newer)."
It would help to list an apt command to install those, since these instructions are specific to Ubuntu. The links are only semi-helpful. For example the wxPtyhon link goes to https://www.wxpython.org/pages/downloads/, which is pretty discouraging for a casual Ubuntu user, "Yes, we have Linux Wheels. Sort of. ... it is not possible to host binary wheel files for Linux on PyPI unless they can be made to work within the constraints of PEP 513 Unfortunately, attempts to pound the wxPython peg into the manylinux1 hole have not been very successful" - I'm not a Python developer and I have no idea what those things are :)
Did you get it to work and succeed at installing the right things? I'm now myself having trouble and need these instructions myself!
Update: I got it to work, see the notes at this discussion: https://answers.launchpad.net/taskcoach/+question/690591
I had the same problem Task Coach not being in the packages on Kubuntu 20.04 and not being able install it anyway. So I created an AppImage. Try it out if it works ok for you.
https://github.com/fluks/taskcoach-appimage/releases/download/v0.1.0/taskcoach-appimage-0.1.0-x86_64.AppImage
The script to build is also there with instructions how to build it. Feel free to make the script better.
Hi! Happy to be announcing that Task Coach is now updated to Python3 and development is finally active again, thanks to new volunteers. The project has now moved to https://github.com/taskcoach/taskcoach
I'm using it myself, and things are working better than ever. Packages are available for some common Linux systems and for Windows (note that it isn't recognized by Windows Smartscreen but can be installed by accepting the warning anyway)
We'd love to have you test the updated program, and post any issues that arise there at GitHub
We won't be continuing with SourceForge, just clearing out old issues and letting people know about the move
Cheers