Program Recommendations for Debian

[ArchiMark]

Try this : remove .config/lxqt/globalkeyshortcuts.conf. logout and login.

Thanks for your help....tried it, but no change.....

 

[ArchiMark]

Went ahead and re-flashed Gemini with the new multi-boot....now, I can boot directly into Debian without pressing any buttons....nice....

So far, all is good....

 

Mark

[galodoido]

Went ahead and re-flashed Gemini with the new multi-boot....now, I can boot directly into Debian without pressing any buttons....nice....

So far, all is good....

 

Mark

What about exagear + wine ?

I will reflash my gemini, but I am planning to install exagear . But I think problem you have mentioned can occur. So, if the keyboard layout has disapearead as you said is really a big problem.
Did you reinstall exagear ?
Thank you.

[Kiriririn]

Went ahead and re-flashed Gemini with the new multi-boot....now, I can boot directly into Debian without pressing any buttons....nice....

So far, all is good....

 

Mark

What about exagear + wine ?

I will reflash my gemini, but I am planning to install exagear . But I think problem you have mentioned can occur. So, if the keyboard layout has disapearead as you said is really a big problem.
Did you reinstall exagear ?
Thank you.

I had this problem and fixed it, iirc by copying some keyboard layout related stuff in /usr from backup (seems something in the exagear installation deletes it)

[galodoido]

Went ahead and re-flashed Gemini with the new multi-boot....now, I can boot directly into Debian without pressing any buttons....nice....

So far, all is good....

 

Mark

What about exagear + wine ?

I will reflash my gemini, but I am planning to install exagear . But I think problem you have mentioned can occur. So, if the keyboard layout has disapearead as you said is really a big problem.
Did you reinstall exagear ?
Thank you.

I had this problem and fixed it, iirc by copying some keyboard layout related stuff in /usr from backup (seems something in the exagear installation deletes it)

Ok. Thank you so much !

[ArchiMark]

Yes, reinstalled exagear and wine.

Had keyboard issue again, but restarted and so far, no problem since then.

[galodoido]

Yes, reinstalled exagear and wine.

Had keyboard issue again, but restarted and so far, no problem since then.

Ok.
Thank you again.

[Eric BF]

I installed: abiword, gnumeric, feh, rhythmbox, and then all the tools required to install and compile Emacs (gcc, git, autoconf, ..., long list).

My main use case is Emacs with org mode and my system boots directly into Debian by default.

[jakfish]

>>Yes, reinstalled exagear and wine.<<

I was looking at exagear to run in Android, but pulled back when I read that it doesn't have touch screen capability, that you have to use a mouse. Could you confirm this?

Thanks,
Jake

[SNi]

Would be fantastic if someone could get IQNotes (source in Github) compiled/working in Debian. I used it the past 15 years on my various Zauri, it's great as an outliner, to-do, list app, etc., etc.

[Eric BF]

Would be fantastic if someone could get IQNotes (source in Github) compiled/working in Debian. I used it the past 15 years on my various Zauri, it's great as an outliner, to-do, list app, etc., etc.

Given the instructions on the github page, it should be straightforward to compile & install.  It requires qmake which is available in Debian.

By the way, Emacs has org mode which does all that IQNotes seems to do. You can install Emacs by simply "sudo apt install emacs25" and it should have org mode available.

[SNi]

Would be fantastic if someone could get IQNotes (source in Github) compiled/working in Debian. I used it the past 15 years on my various Zauri, it's great as an outliner, to-do, list app, etc., etc.

Given the instructions on the github page, it should be straightforward to compile & install.  It requires qmake which is available in Debian.
By the way, Emacs has org mode which does all that IQNotes seems to do. You can install Emacs by simply "sudo apt install emacs25" and it should have org mode available.

1. I tried to install Emacs25 per your suggestion, but get 'Reading package list... Done' then 'Building dependency tree...Done' then 'E: Unable to locate package emacs 25' error message. Actually I get a similar 'unable to locate' error message for any/everything I have tried to install thus far!

Per my (admittedly extremely limited) knowledge there should be a sources.list file in /etc/apt/ that "tells" the system the repository source (at least that is what is on my desktop). On my Gemini there is no such file, but there are two files, multistrap-debian.list (pointing at the 'regular' Debian repository) and multistrap-gemian.list (pointing at thinkglobally.org) in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/  Is this the way this should be, or is this why I can't install any packages?

2. Re IQNotes: I have never compiled a program, so have been googling furiously without any luck so far. I've read that once I download the source and change to its directory I need to do ./configure to check my system for the required software needed to build the program. This gives a 'No such file or directory' error  message. If I skip this step and try the instructions provided in the README.DESKTOP I get the following error message: 'qmake: could not exec '/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/qt4/bin/qmake'  It may be "straightforward" to someone that knows what they are doing, but (unfortunately) that is not me! Any pointers?

[ArchiMark]

Would be fantastic if someone could get IQNotes (source in Github) compiled/working in Debian. I used it the past 15 years on my various Zauri, it's great as an outliner, to-do, list app, etc., etc.

Given the instructions on the github page, it should be straightforward to compile & install.  It requires qmake which is available in Debian.
By the way, Emacs has org mode which does all that IQNotes seems to do. You can install Emacs by simply "sudo apt install emacs25" and it should have org mode available.

1. I tried to install Emacs25 per your suggestion, but get 'Reading package list... Done' then 'Building dependency tree...Done' then 'E: Unable to locate package emacs 25' error message. Actually I get a similar 'unable to locate' error message for any/everything I have tried to install thus far!

Per my (admittedly extremely limited) knowledge there should be a sources.list file in /etc/apt/ that "tells" the system the repository source (at least that is what is on my desktop). On my Gemini there is no such file, but there are two files, multistrap-debian.list (pointing at the 'regular' Debian repository) and multistrap-gemian.list (pointing at thinkglobally.org) in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/  Is this the way this should be, or is this why I can't install any packages?

2. Re IQNotes: I have never compiled a program, so have been googling furiously without any luck so far. I've read that once I download the source and change to its directory I need to do ./configure to check my system for the required software needed to build the program. This gives a 'No such file or directory' error  message. If I skip this step and try the instructions provided in the README.DESKTOP I get the following error message: 'qmake: could not exec '/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/qt4/bin/qmake'  It may be "straightforward" to someone that knows what they are doing, but (unfortunately) that is not me! Any pointers?

Just to make sure....

Did you first do:

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
And then:

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sudo apt-get install emacs25
If not, try it...

[Eric BF]

I would suggest not doing a dist-upgrade as 1) it shouldn't be necessary and 2) may actually cause problems depending on what it tries to upgrade, e.g. the kernel.

[ArchiMark]

I would suggest not doing a dist-upgrade as 1) it shouldn't be necessary and 2) may actually cause problems depending on what it tries to upgrade, e.g. the kernel.

Doing dist-upgrade is certainly optional.

Others and myself have done it without any problems.