[Slackbuilds-users] xtrkcad

[Niels Horn]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 4:09 PM, David Spencer
<baildon.research at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 30 August 2011 16:59, Roland Waggoner <roland.waggoner at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am using Slackware13.37. The installation of xtrkcad fails with the
>> message
>> -- checking for module 'libgtkhtml-2.0'
>> --   package 'libgtkhtml-2.0' not found.
>
> Hi Roland,
>
> As you have found, xtrkcad was removed from SBo because an important
> dependency (libgtkhtml) became obsolete and was removed from Slackware
> a long time ago [*].  However, I kept a copy of the xtrkcad
> SlackBuild, and also I modified Pat's libgtkhtml SlackBuild to conform
> to SBo standards.  You can get them from my Github repo:
>
> libgtkhtml:
>
> https://raw.github.com/idlemoor/SBo-fork/fork/Unmaintained/libgtkhtml/README
> https://raw.github.com/idlemoor/SBo-fork/fork/Unmaintained/libgtkhtml/libgtkhtml.SlackBuild
> https://raw.github.com/idlemoor/SBo-fork/fork/Unmaintained/libgtkhtml/libgtkhtml.info
> https://raw.github.com/idlemoor/SBo-fork/fork/Unmaintained/libgtkhtml/slack-desc
>
> xtrkcad:
>
> https://raw.github.com/idlemoor/SBo-fork/fork/Unmaintained/xtrkcad/README
> https://raw.github.com/idlemoor/SBo-fork/fork/Unmaintained/xtrkcad/slack-desc
> https://raw.github.com/idlemoor/SBo-fork/fork/Unmaintained/xtrkcad/xtrkcad.SlackBuild
> https://raw.github.com/idlemoor/SBo-fork/fork/Unmaintained/xtrkcad/xtrkcad.info
>
> I hope they work for you.  It's a big surprise that someone cares
> about xtrkcad -- maybe I should submit an update for jmri too...
>
> Regards
> -D.
>
> [*] There was some discussion, a long time ago, about rewriting
> xtrkcad to use something else (gtkhtml3 or webkit) but apparently that
> still hasn't happened.

David,

There is a beta-version in their mercurial repo that works with webkit...

Feel free to try it out and submit :-)

--
Niels