On Sun 22 Jul 2018 at 19:14:40 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote: > On 2018-07-22 at 17:26, Leandro Noferini wrote: > > > Ciao a tutti, > > > > some friends with no computing skills need to catalog some objects > > with some features like components, costs and images. I gave a look > > to base in libreoffice suite but it looks too difficult to use and to > > mantain. > > > > Is there something easier to use in linux/debian? > > > > Something like filemaker of years ago. > > Without knowing what their project actually looks like, just based on > that description, the thing that springs first to my mind is tellico. > It's a collection-management program, and while its predefined > "collection of what?" categories probably don't cover what your friends > need, it's allegedly extensible with custom collection-type definitions. > > It's not strictly a database, but for a sufficiently simple type of > collection inventory it's good enough, and the UI is better than any > full database solution I've personally encountered. (Which, to be fair, > is not saying particularly much.)
Without intending any criticism of the suggestion, particularly for this use case where a DE might be assumed, it looks very heavy on dependencies. On my system, it would require 90 packages minimum: $ apt-get -s --no-install-recommends install tellico […] The following additional packages will be installed: docbook-xml docbook-xsl kate-data katepart kde-runtime kde-runtime-data kdelibs-bin kdelibs5-data kdelibs5-plugins kdoctools lib¹ […] ntrack-module-libnl-0 oxygen-icon-theme phonon phonon-backend-gstreamer phonon-backend-gstreamer-common plasma-scriptengine-javascript sgml-data soprano-daemon tellico-data tellico-scripts Suggested packages: docbook docbook-dsssl docbook-defguide dbtoepub docbook-xsl-doc-html | docbook-xsl-doc-pdf | docbook-xsl-doc-text | docbook-xsl-doc docbook-xsl-saxon fop libsaxon-java libxalan2-java libxslthl-java xalan djvulibre-bin finger exiv2 fam iodbc hspell libqt4-declarative-folderlistmodel libqt4-declarative-gestures libqt4-declarative-particles libqt4-declarative-shaders qt4-qmlviewer libqt4-dev media-player-info phonon-backend-vlc gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer perlsgml w3-recs opensp virtuoso-minimal Recommended packages: icoutils libcanberra-pulse | libcanberra-gstreamer sound-theme-freedesktop upower libqca2-plugins libqt4-sql-mysql | libqt4-sql-odbc | libqt4-sql-psql | libqt4-sql-sqlite | libqt4-sql-sqlite2 | libqt4-sql-ibase tellico-doc khelpcenter4 The following NEW packages will be installed: docbook-xml docbook-xsl kate-data katepart kde-runtime kde-runtime-data kdelibs-bin kdelibs5-data kdelibs5-plugins kdoctools lib¹ […] ntrack-module-libnl-0 oxygen-icon-theme phonon phonon-backend-gstreamer phonon-backend-gstreamer-common plasma-scriptengine-javascript sgml-data soprano-daemon tellico tellico-data tellico-scripts 0 upgraded, 90 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. The eight recommendations in turn lead to 100 more packages: $ apt-get -s install tellico […] The following additional packages will be installed: docbook-xml docbook-xsl icoutils kate-data katepart kde-runtime kde-runtime-data kdelibs-bin kdelibs5-data kdelibs5-plugins kdoctools kdoctools5 khelpcenter khelpcenter4 kinit kio lib¹ […] ntrack-module-libnl-0 oxygen-icon-theme phonon phonon-backend-gstreamer phonon-backend-gstreamer-common phonon4qt5 phonon4qt5-backend-vlc plasma-scriptengine-javascript pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils rtkit sgml-data sonnet-plugins soprano-daemon sound-theme-freedesktop tellico-data tellico-doc tellico-scripts upower usbmuxd Suggested packages: docbook docbook-dsssl docbook-defguide dbtoepub docbook-xsl-doc-html | docbook-xsl-doc-pdf | docbook-xsl-doc-text | docbook-xsl-doc docbook-xsl-saxon fop libsaxon-java libxalan2-java libxslthl-java xalan libterm-readline-gnu-perl | libterm-readline-perl-perl djvulibre-bin finger exiv2 fam libusbmuxd-tools iodbc hspell media-player-info libqt4-declarative-folderlistmodel libqt4-declarative-gestures libqt4-declarative-particles libqt4-declarative-shaders qt4-qmlviewer libqt4-dev phonon-backend-vlc gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer pavumeter pavucontrol paman paprefs perlsgml w3-recs opensp virtuoso-minimal The following NEW packages will be installed: docbook-xml docbook-xsl icoutils kate-data katepart kde-runtime kde-runtime-data kdelibs-bin kdelibs5-data kdelibs5-plugins kdoctools kdoctools5 khelpcenter khelpcenter4 kinit kio lib¹ […] ntrack-module-libnl-0 oxygen-icon-theme phonon phonon-backend-gstreamer phonon-backend-gstreamer-common phonon4qt5 phonon4qt5-backend-vlc plasma-scriptengine-javascript pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils rtkit sgml-data sonnet-plugins soprano-daemon sound-theme-freedesktop tellico tellico-data tellico-doc tellico-scripts upower usbmuxd 0 upgraded, 190 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. ¹ snipped all packages named lib* just to reduce the line count. Never having seen or used it, it just seems a touch profligate. I only post this as a warning to non-DE users. Cheers, David.
