[SOLVED] Kompozer not in repos?

[MaxK]

I have switched over to LMDE from Linux Mint 10 and am enjoying it so far, with a few caveats. One of the least minor of them is that Kompozer appears not to be in the repositories. I've googled it, but I can't seem to find the exact reason. Compiling from source looks rather more complicated that compiling many applications from source would be. Is it possible to get it up and running in any other way?

[zerozero]

kompozer was removed from testing http://packages.qa.debian.org/k/kompoze ... 3916Z.html on fev.
you can check here http://release.debian.org/migration/tes ... e=kompozer what is stopping the migration.

you have a new v. in sid (if it's really an app you need), you can add

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deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free

update (don't upgrade or dist-upgrade) install it and then remove again that repo. (of course, as you are installing pkgs from sid, caution and see if core lib and/or pkgs are to be removed and/or updated, that is never a good stability sign)

[MaxK]

OK, thanks. I will hold off and hopefully it will be available sometime soon.

[barryp]

Hi

You can download the latest version from the official web page.

http://kompozer.net/

It's a tarball. "Extract Here" wherever you want ( I have a folder called "installed" in my home directory) & you can run it straight out of that folder. No building or configuration required.

I did this yesterday in LMDE Cinnamon & its working fine so far.

Cheers!

[MaxK]

You can download the latest version from the official web page.

http://kompozer.net/

It's a tarball. "Extract Here" wherever you want ( I have a folder called "installed" in my home directory) & you can run it straight out of that folder. No building or configuration required.

I did this yesterday in LMDE Cinnamon & its working fine so far.

Barry,

Thanks for the suggestion. I had tried that before and tried it again after you suggested it, with a fresh download. However, I'm unable to get it to run either in MATE or in Cinnamon. When I try to run it from the command line, here's the error:

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./kompozer-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I tried looking for that libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 in Synaptic, but no joy -- it just doesn't show up at all, either as installed or uninstalled.

UPDATE: I tried using sudo apt-get install libgtk-x11-2.0-0 and it claims to exist and to be the newest version.

[barryp]

Hi Max,

Did you try to run it from the command line? That won't work if you installed into the /home directory.

I have it here:

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~/Installed/kompozer/

where I extracted it.

kompozer-bin is in there:

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~/Installed/kompozer/kompozer-bin

I just open the folder & double click the file called kompozer. Not kompozer-bin, it isn't executable. The one you want has a black, terminal type icon. I get a "do you want to run, run in terminal ... etc" message. I choose run & hey presto.

It's working fine & I've used it a few times over the past week. I hope that this helps.

Usually I'd right click on Mint Menu & add a new item, but for some reason that won't work right now.

Cheers
Barry

Update: in order to add a new item to the menu, I needed to install alacarte from synaptic. I now have a working shortcut in my menu which runs kompozer with the command:

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/home/barry/Installed/kompozer/kompozer

[craigevil]

The version in sid should install safely in Testing/LMDE.

The following NEW packages will be installed:
kompozer kompozer-data libidl0

[MaxK]

Did you try to run it from the command line? That won't work if you installed into the /home directory.

Barry, I had it in a subdirectory. I tried running it from double-clicking first and when that failed I tried it from the command line to see what errors might come up.

The version in sid should install safely in Testing/LMDE.

The following NEW packages will be installed:
kompozer kompozer-data libidl0

All right, maybe I'll give it a try.

[MaxK]

I added this repo in Synaptic:

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deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free

and did a reload and a search still didn't turn it up.

[craigevil]

I added this repo in Synaptic:

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deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free

and did a reload and a search still didn't turn it up.

did you do apt-get update before doing apt-cache search kompozer?

Package kompozer

squeeze (stable) (web): complete Web Authoring System
1:0.8~b3.dfsg.1-0.1: amd64 armel i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc
sid (unstable) (web): complete Web Authoring System
1:0.8~b3.dfsg.1-0.1: alpha amd64 armel armhf hppa i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sh4 sparc sparc64
1:0.8~b1-2 [debports]: avr32

$ apt-cache policy kompozer
kompozer:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1:0.8~b3.dfsg.1-0.1
Version table:
1:0.8~b3.dfsg.1-0.1 0
500 http://ftp-mirror.internap.com/pub/debian/ unstable/main i386 Packages

[barryp]

Hi Max,

Sorry my way didn't work for you! Hope you got it going.

B

[MaxK]

did you do apt-get update before doing apt-cache search kompozer?

Nope. That worked. Thanks!

[alirezaimi]

The kompozer removed from unstable repo :
http://packages.qa.debian.org/k/kompoze ... 0928Z.html
and this error happend for me when u want run bin package downloaded from kompozer site :

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alireza@ali-deb:~/Desktop/kompozer$ ./kompozer-bin
./kompozer-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libmozjs.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
alireza@ali-deb:~/Desktop/kompozer$ ./kompozer
./kompozer-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


[alirezaimi]

The kompozer removed from unstable repo :
http://packages.qa.debian.org/k/kompoze ... 0928Z.html
and this error happend for me when u want run bin package downloaded from kompozer site :

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alireza@ali-deb:~/Desktop/kompozer$ ./kompozer-bin
./kompozer-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libmozjs.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
alireza@ali-deb:~/Desktop/kompozer$ ./kompozer
./kompozer-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


Any ideas?

[Chet]

Sorry Folks... I just edited this post... thanks to zerozero's post below notifying me that I posted in the wrong sub-forum. Please disregard my advice in this post as it pertains to those of you running Mint 14 only and not LMDE. Once again my apologies.

If anyone is still looking for a solution to this problem, here is how I installed Kompozer on my Mint 14 Nadia box.

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wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/k/kompozer/kompozer_0.8~b3.dfsg.1-0.1ubuntu2_amd64.deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/k/kompozer/kompozer-data_0.8~b3.dfsg.1-0.1ubuntu2_all.deb

sudo dpkg -i kompozer*.deb

This will even place Kompozer in your Programming and Internet sub-menus automatically.

I installed it last night and it works great.

[zerozero]

Chet,
i just hope nobody follows your suggestion: this is the lmde sub-forum and you are using mint 14 and recommending an ubuntu deb.
good luck.

[Chet]

Your absolutely right zerozero. I don't know what I was thinking. I edited my post above and will be more careful next time. Thank you.

Chet