Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] TuxPaint Linux Installer

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 03:08:21AM +0800, Rykel wrote:
> I wonder if someone on this list, with the relevant expertise, could release
> a TuxPaint official Linux Installer? (see the developer instructions at
> http://www.autopackage.org)

Creating an autopackage is actually in my to-do list, I believe.
I'd certainly accept some help with it, though! :)


> This will be wonderful, as I have already installed the latest version of
> Firefox, Xara Extreme, GAIM, AbiWord, Mission Photo, Scribus and Stallerium
> etc. because they all come with Linux installers, just like some of their
> Setup.Exe files in Windows XP.

Out of curiosity, what distro(s) are you running?  Tux Paint depends on
some very well-supported libraries, so it's fairly trivial to install it
from source-code.

Also, as you may have noticed, RPM packages for Red Hat (6.2 thru 9.0)
and Fedora CORE (1 thru 5) are available.  It will also be available
in the upcoming version of Debian (due December), and Ben has offered
to make 'backports' to Sarge, if there's a lot of demand.

The last version of Tux Paint was available via klik
( http://klik.atekon.de/ ), which is a similar concept to autopackage.
I'm not sure if they've packaged up the latest yet.  I can't tell what
version is there now ( http://tuxpaint.klik.atekon.de/ doesn't say)

Thanks and good luck!  Let us know if you try compiling from source
and need some assistance.  (The INSTALL.txt doc should hopefully get
you going, though!)

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