The ubuntu ppa for dev given in help pages, https://launchpad.net/~geany-dev/+archive/ubuntu/ppa, contains only old versions <= 1.27. I have already tried to follow the installation with make, etc. but it doesn't work (probably my misunderstanding...). So I still use 1.27 where I want to use 1.29 :-) Is there a way to help (with my unknowledge of C, I use geany for web development) updating the ppa? Thanks for that great product indeed!
Despite the name, the PPA is not maintained by Geany developers. Coincidently the maintainer of the PPA was recently reminded that its was two releases behind Geany. It is unclear if the maintainer of the PPA monitors Geany issues and will see this offer of help, you may do better contacting them directly.
Closed #1338.
Yes I know it is not maintained by Geany Developers, but I was thinking you had a kind of link with him/her, and that's almost the case as you have reminded them. I'll try to contact them. Thanks for your reply
@Laurent3170 our only link is intermittent contact on IRC, you can try that as well, the maintainers usual nick is `hyperair`.
Even if I haven't got time to get in touch with the ppa manager, your message @elextr have been heard as the ppa has been updated :-)
Hi @elextr I have tried to contact `hyperair` on IRC but I don't really know how it works... So, is it possible that you leave him a message to update the PPA, as latest version available is 1.30.1 while 1.32 is out?
PPA has ben updated :-)
Just a ping, if it works, for updating Ubuntu ppa with 1.33 (I hope I'm not the only user on Ubuntu). I wish to help but I really don't know how...
I'm using Linux Mint 18.3 with Geany version 1.32, but would like to enjoy the improvements and fixes made in Geany and Geany-plugins, version 1.33.
If the unofficial PPA channel is out of use or outdated, are you planning to release any official PPAs or Flatpaks with the latest version?
@franco999 the Geany team are not experts in packaging, especially the arcane rules each distro has and so will not make packages. The only package Geany makes is the Windows one since Windows does not have packagers. Even the OSX release is the work of a single packager. Instead we rely on the expertise of specialist packaging contributors for each distro. But, being individuals they sometimes have periods of limited time so some distros/PPAs are slower to update than others.
Flatpacks sound nice in theory, but when someone tried to make a Geany one they found it wasn't as simple as the website would lead you to believe. So until somebody contributes the infrastructure to create any of the "portable" package formats they won't happen either.
And until one of the competing formats wins and the software is installed on all distros by default they have the problem for us of multiple targets and for users of needing to install some supporting software to install Geany.
@elextr Understood, thank you for responding.
Sorry to use this issue to communicate, but, where else to do? Geany 1.33 has been updated on the ppa :-), but I can't install geany-plugins :-( ``` Les paquets suivants contiennent des dépendances non satisfaites : geany-plugins : Dépend: geany-plugin-addons (>= 1.32+dfsg-1~17.10) mais ne sera pas installé ``` If you don't understand french (but I think you don't need it here), it means that it requires dependencies that could not be satisfied so it won't be installed. That's the same for all plugins files (I've just copied first line). Is it because, maybe, the geany-plugins has NOT been updated on the ppa?
Sorry to use this issue to communicate, but, where else to do?
Presumably [the bug tracker](https://bugs.launchpad.net/~geany-dev) for this PPA would be most appropriate, although I don't use launchpad so I have no idea if it event works.
@codebrainz Thanks for the link, I should have found it myself but as I don't use launchpad either (except for updates) I don't know how it works. But as you're right, here it's not the place to communicate, I've contacted them and proposed my help (if I can do so) to reduce the delay for ppa update. So I won't use this issue anymore ;-)
Thanks for your time and your job, with Geany I don't need to pay a license for PHPStorm (as I don't have the money) and I have a strong EDI ! :-)
Sorry about that, I meant to upload both geany and geany-plugins together, but fell asleep after updating geany. Also I forgot that the PPA hadn't had gtk3 enabled for the plugins yet.
Thanks for your work! Otherwise we can't use it on Ubuntu :-)
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