[texhax] help

[Herbert Voss]

Am 22.11.18 um 09:34 schrieb Lars Madsen:
> erh, I installed it on my Ubuntu box (16.04) yesterday with a normal apt install.

same for 18.04 
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/188285739/sam2p_0.49.2-3_amd64.deb

via
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/xenial/amd64/sam2p/0.49.2-3

Herbert


> On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 16:10 (-0600), Axel E. Retif wrote:
> 
>> On 11/21/18 7:32 AM, Lars Madsen wrote:
> 
>>>> Does anyone know why sam2p is not provided in texlive for Linux?
> 
>>> that was already mentioned,
> 
> I missed that somewhere.  (Mea culpa?)
> 
>>> it already comes separately for Linux as it is useful for everyone,
>>> not just TeXLive users.  So there is no need to provide it twice.
> 
> Well, aside from what Axel says, it probably requires Linux users to go
> out, hunt it down, compile it, yada yada yada (I'm guessing it isn't
> part of the base installation of many/most Linux distros).  While many
> Linux users are capable of doing those tasks,
> (a) some might not be,
> (b) on Linux distros that don't include development tools in the base
>      installation, that could be a big job, and
> (c) an inquisitive texlive user might peruse the programs available in
>      texlive and discover sam2p, but otherwise might never know of its
>      existence.
> 
> 
>> I can't find it in Ubuntu (Debian) repositories, and from
> 
>> https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article143/removing-sam2p-from-debian
> 
>> -----
>>                Issues with sam2p and removal
> 
>> I have been maintaining the Debian package of sam2p for some time.
>> Unfortunately, the upstream development of that program is no longer active,
>> and it is using an old custom build chain that no longer works with recent
>> version of GCC.
> 
>> This package is currently failing to build from source, and while I have
>> been able to patch some issues in the past, and it may still be possible to
>> fix it again, this is not really sustainable.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> I d/l'ed the most recent sources today and compiled it without a
> hitch.  It is being maintained.  I'm not sure what the quoted blogger
> is going on about.  (Caveat: I just compiled it on Slackware.  Perhaps
> trying to make a .deb on a debian system is far more difficult and
> error-prone than what I did.)
> 
> Cheers
> 
>                                  Jim
> 
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