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Hi guys,
here is the new 64 bit livecode 8 DEB and RPM installer packages: http://www.maxvessi.net/livecode/linux/

This solve any bug with dictionary and browser widget!

Please try it and let me know!

OK - it sort of works.

It does install livecodecommunity-8-1-3.x86_64 into /opt/livecode.
However, it doesn't allow the option the user to install just for that user (in the /home directory)
I wanted it in /opt, so that part is fine for my system.

A more serious problem is that it doesn't add the new installation to the Programming menu, so it has to be launched from a command line.

It creates the menu, try to log off and log on.

Nope. Still not there.
And the LC installer creates the menu without needing to log out and in again.

Hi,
to creae menus in linux I use this: And my runrev-livecodecommunity_8_1_3-x86_64.desktop file is:
This should add the program, however try to launch update-menus.

Well, investigating a bit further... all the files are there in the proper places, and I can launch the application from the command line.

Uninstalling the version installed with the .deb file doesn't remove all the traces - trying to install after that it thinks that it's already installed. Uninstalling via the .deb file doesn't make a difference. Reinstalling anyway has the same symptoms as before - nothing in the menu, able to launch from the command line.

Also, it's installed on my system into /opt as mwieder:mwieder instead of root:root - that will limit multiuser access, no? And that's the reason for installing into /opt in the first place. But chowning it all to root:root didn't help.

The owner is not a problem, the important is the permissions.
Did you try to launch update-menus from command line?
To solve liveocode 8 bugs, it mus be launched from panel, so it's important that appears on menu.
What distribution do you use?

This is linux mint 17.2. The update-menus utility isn't installed by default, so I apt-get installed the menu package and ran it, but the situation is the same. Even restarted the system to see if that made a difference.

No, neither the owner nor permissions seem to be a problem here. And the files are in the right places and have the right contents.

I'm using LC9-dp6 as my development system, so the LC8 problems aren't a concern (although actually I run 8.14 fine without the extra environment variables you need.. another mystery). Just trying to help troubleshoot the .deb installation, because I'd like this to work universally.

I'm using linux mint 17 too!

I tested and works perfectly:



No need to log out. Livecode 8.1.3 is under Developmet menu immediately.

No worries. Not doubting that it looks right on your system, just that it never appears on the menu on mine.
There's probably something weird on my setup, and it will take more than just our two data points to sort this out.

Do you use Cinnamon or Mate?

cinnamon desktop. like I said, all the files seem to be in the correct places.

mwieder wrote:... it will take more than just our two data points to sort this out.

<Another data point enters to muddy up the water !! >
Heya Max !

I wanted to play with your toys so I loaded up a bunch of fresh vms with different versions of linux to give your files a clean setup approach, but before I dive into that, I wanted to point this out.

On your webpage you list at the top some dependencies. I believe there were some typos, you may want to correct those for others that look.

I believe they should be -
libc6:i386
libgtk2.0-0:i386
libgdk-pixbuf2.0.0:i386
libglib2.0-0:i386

If your on an older linuxen box, they can be found under the ia32-libs package, if newer then multiarch should bring them in (I think).

On to the TRIALS ! These are all fresh installs, no special additions, just for information. We start with my favorite form of debian based linuxen...

64 bit Debian 7 (Wheezy)LXDE - not as far as I know a recommended Lc install candidate )
( I am not sure if the following are dependencies of Lc, or the way your deb file is set up )
// libssl1.x is installed, however it was not taken into account, and there are problems installing 0.9.8 since its no longer in the repositories. // installed mplayer // installed pulseaudio-esound-compat

Since I wasn't able to install libssl0.9.8 from a legit repository (you can still find it other places, just not the deb. repositories for squeeze) I downloaded the Lc installer for 8.1.3 to see if I could get it installed, which it did with no issues seen. Not sure why?

Will continue testing and see if I can figure it out (or help you to). I'm with mwieder, I want this to work universally, although I've not had an issue installing Lc myself.

libssl0.9.8 has been superseded by libssl1.0.0. That's what's in the apt-get repo and what should be used. It references the latest build of libssl (1.0.1f-1ubuntu2.22). The last build of libssl0.9.8 was from 2011.

I don't remember why I put both versions.

This is the list of packages: What changes do you propose?