[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Plugin preferences greyed out on new install of geany on Linux mint (#2762)

[chrisaww]

 The general advice provided by Linux Mint community  about Ubuntu packages is as follows:'Linux Mint comes in two flavours. One is based on Ubuntu, the otherone (LMDE) is based on Debian. The Ubuntu based version (the defaultone) is guaranteed to work with Ubuntu packages.' 

My apt-get command is only configured to use either Ubuntu or Mint repositories. 
So I still think the steps I took were appropriate.
I strongly suspect the web page owner is not the one who loads the repositories with the geany- plugin packages, but the individual needs to be aware the markdown package has not been included and it would help future users to be aware of the limitation.
I have raised a question with Ubuntu to understand if this was a positive decision to omit that plugin. 
Going back in time (several years) I have found another plugin was suspended due to webkit dependancy version issues. 
As I have a work around using a python library rather than taking up too much time of others, I have closed to comment. If I get a clear response from Ubuntu I shall forward it to Matthew in the spirit of being helpful


    On Tuesday, 16 March 2021, 20:15:15 GMT, elextr ***@***.***> wrote:  
 
 



It is slightly misleading having the web page up but no libraries installed.


Thats the Plugins collection project website, its not specific to your install, or even to Ubuntu/Mint or other distribution. So its not going to change just because you don't have the libraries installed for markdown.

As I said above, the Geany project doesn't make the distribution packages for Ubuntu/Mint (or any distribution). So I don't know why markdown is not provided by them, for example it is available on Fedora. Perhaps Ubuntu/Mint don't provide some dependency of the plugin, so they can't make it available. That has happened in the past, and perhaps it has again. Or maybe the packager just made a mistake.

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