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I share my TR data file between machines and across platforms. Since updating to TR 2.2.1 on my XP machine, I am unable to open the file on my Ubuntu machines.
Is there, or will there soon be, a deb package for version 2.2.1?

Ubuntu (I'm told) is the most popular Linux distro in the world. It seems odd that I even have to type this post and that there isn't a deb package on the download site.

Am I missing something?

Thanks.

I'm also using Ubuntu, I dropped the TR archive into a directory and call the executable directly from there,
jdkhome in etc/tr.conf should then point the latest JRE,
..but yes, a deb package would be nice

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Andrey

I'm using the DEB package created by Salutis on my Sidux distribution which is based on Debian Sid. The ease of upgrading by having a Debian package available makes this an attractive option.

I don't know if Salutis is still around to prepare an upgrade of his package to TR 2.2.1 (or if anyone else can do it) but if so that would be good.

Graham

Unfortunately ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/trgtd/+bug/236595 ) it seems that Salutis doesn't have time to work on packaging tr at the moment. I've become quite a fan of tr, and would quite like to see a 2.2.1 deb myself, so will take a look at Salutis's packaging work...

OK, I've built on salutis's earlier work and prepared an updated thinkingrock .deb package for tr 2.2.1. I've passed it to the Ubuntu REVU process, but in the meantime it's in the Ubuntu PPA area so it's easy to pick up.

If you're running karmic (Ubuntu 9.10), just paste this at a command-line:

Earlier versions than 9.10 should also just work, but it's slightly more involved. If you know to edit your sources.list file, add the following line to it:
Otherwise, go into the Software Sources control panel, Third Party Software tab, click on Add and paste in the line above. Either way, you should then be able to install it:


The package is marked for the karmic release (Ubuntu 9.10) but because it's all-java, it should just work on any recent Ubuntu provided you can satisfy the dependencies. Indeed, it also seems to work on the debian lenny (5.0) box I had to hand.

I've passed the package to the Ubuntu REVU process to see if it can be adopted into the archive; if it is, that build will supersede this one.

Caveat: I think the packaging works, and there doesn't seem to be anything glaring wrong, but please do report a bug (ideally via Launchpad) if anything is wrong with it.