Greetings, earthlings:
I’ve developed a new radio astronomy application, which uses XForms
(yes, I know, a freakin’ antique as far as GUI tookits go,
but it’s lightweight and easy to use) as the GUI toolkit.
I’m a Fedora kind of guy, and I’m wondering if XForms is available for
install on a standard Ubuntu system, if so, what would be
the magic incantation to do an install?
On Fedora:
sudo yum -y install xforms
Works just fine, but I wonder if it’s in the standard repos for Ubuntu,
and whether I could apt-get for a Ubuntu system? Anyone
on the list with a Ubuntu recent edition care to try installing xforms
from the Ubuntu repositories, and report back to me?
–
Marcus L.
Principal Investigator, Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:31:31AM -0400, Marcus D. Leech wrote:
Works just fine, but I wonder if it’s in the standard repos for Ubuntu,
and whether I could apt-get for a Ubuntu system? Anyone
on the list with a Ubuntu recent edition care to try installing xforms
from the Ubuntu repositories, and report back to me?
Looking good:
[insfl4:~]% apt-cache search xforms
libforms-bin - Support binaries for the XForms widget library
libforms-dev - Header files and static libraries for the XForms widget
library
libforms1 - The XForms graphical interface widget library
libformsgl-dev - Header files and static libraries for the OpenGL XForms
library
libformsgl1 - The OpenGL XForms graphical interface widget library
xfmail - Mail reader using a nice XForms GUI
libforms-doc - Documentation for the XForms graphical interface library
w3-recs - Recommendations of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
[insfl4:~]% sudo apt-get install libforms-dev
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libforms1 libxpm-dev
Suggested packages:
libforms-bin libforms-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libforms-dev libforms1 libxpm-dev
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 30 not upgraded.
Need to get 960kB of archives.
After this operation, 2933kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Get:1 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe libforms1 1.0-7ubuntu2
[389kB]
Get:2 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main libxpm-dev 1:3.5.7-1
[49.9kB]
Get:3 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe libforms-dev
1.0-7ubuntu2 [521kB]
Fetched 960kB in 0s (2432kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package libforms1.
(Reading database … 285815 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libforms1 (from …/libforms1_1.0-7ubuntu2_amd64.deb) …
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Unpacking libforms-dev (from …/libforms-dev_1.0-7ubuntu2_amd64.deb)
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Setting up libforms1 (1.0-7ubuntu2) …
Setting up libxpm-dev (1:3.5.7-1) …
Setting up libforms-dev (1.0-7ubuntu2) …
looks like libforms1 is what you want to apt-get install.
Hope this is what you were looking for -
Martin