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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by renzev@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

I recently wanted to run tegaki, and my experience is pretty much summed up by the meme. I consider myself fairly tech-savvy, but I just couldn't figure out how to compile it. So I just gave up, downloaded the .exe and put it into a fresh wine prefix. After installing CJK fonts, everything ran fine. Now I'm trying to get gpaint to work. ~~My distro recently dropped support for gtk+2 (which I am fairly pissed about, since it's the last good version of GTK+), so I have to set that up manually as well.~~ [[[ EDIT: gtk2 is alive and well. I was just being and idiot and searching for gtk2, when the package is actually called gtk+2. ]]] I installed all of the dependencies that ./configure told me to, but I still kept getting obscure errors when running make.

So, here's my question: what tools make the process of running abandonware easier? Docker containers? Also, what can I use to package abandonware in order to make it easy for other people to run? Flatpak? Appimages? Any advice is appreciated!

Also, inb4 "just find a modern alternative". That would be a reasonable solution. I don't want reasonable solutions!

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[-] shalva97@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

just another Monday

[-] dai@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

~~ive got limited experience however i think ive got tegaki-python to build under nixos:~~

https://pastebin.com/yCKUBrgG

~~name to default.nix then run (from the same dir)~~

~~nix-build -E 'let pkgs = import { }; in pkgs.callPackage ./default.nix {}' --show-trace~~

~~lots more to build but i looks possible to have up and running in nix with some small tweaks from the initial nix-init .nix~~

~~a sparceCheckout would trim some fat however minimal on a per-package basis too~~

looks like its running into perm issues, bit over my head :D

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