How to install orage in LM 20.2 Xfce

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secureIT
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How to install orage in LM 20.2 Xfce

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How to install orage in LM 20.2 Xfce

As some of you noticed orage is not longer availiable in the repos since upgrade to Xfce 4.16.

The reason is the requirements of dependencies from the previous Xfce panel version.

Which are : ibxfce4util7 (>= 4.9.0), xfce4-panel (>= 4.13), xfce4-panel (<< 4.15)

But: orage also runs standalone without these panel dependencies.

So if you want to install it, you can modify the control of the package by removing these dependencies,
and then repack it as a patched version.

After doing this you can install orage via gdebi.

It is even easier, you use the already patched version, which I provide here:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/c52ueemz ... 4.deb/file

Download it, double-click it, and gdebi will also install the orage-data.

That’s it.

You can now start orage from the application menu and it will show up into the panel.

edit:

For those who wont trust my patched version and want to patch it themselves:

Download the version for Ubuntu 20.4 here:

http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/u ... amd64.deb

and then proceed as described here:

http://tuxdiary.com/2013/12/01/unpack-m ... deb-files/

(edit the control file before repacking and delete the previously mentioned dependencies)

The code snippet should then look like this:

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Depends: orage-data (= 4.12.1-7), libc6 (>= 2.14), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.35.9), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libical3 (>= 3.0.0), libnotify4 (>= 0.7.0), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpopt0 (>= 1.14), libx11-6
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Re: How to install orage in LM 20.2 Xfce

Post by cittaul »

Hi,
Thank you for sharing this information. I have loved using Orage for a long time because it is the easiest and lightest calendar product with everything I need on a daily basis. Its disappearance from the Linuxmint 20.2 repository was like a thorn in my side, until I came across your post.
Greatings.
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Re: How to install orage in LM 20.2 Xfce

Post by tshann »

Running xfce 20.3 - this hack worked a treat. Thanks!
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