Hi,
first of all I want to thank you for your answers and apologize for my
very late response. To be honest I wasn't sure how communication with
mailing lists works (e.g. if I have to answer to everyone or just the
person who wrote me) and waited for some other cases to watch. I hope I
am doing right with this answer.
Despite the fact with the missing library and so on, I just want to let
you know, I followed the advise of Dirk and switched to a more beginner
friendly linux distribution (Linux Mint). So far everything looks good
with Subsurface.
So once again: thanks for your effort - not just for helping in my case
but overall for developing great things like Subsurface for free.
Best regards
Stephan
On 5/12/22 18:13, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
On May 12, 2022, at 3:48 AM, Strapinski wrote:
I tried to install subsurface for openSUSE Tumbleweed but it fails with
following error:
"nothing provides 'libgit2.so.1.3()(64bit)' needed by the to be installed
subsurface-5.0.4-1.3.x86_64"
Clearly an older build using a shared object that isn't included anymore. Kinda
sucks from a user experience, but hey, what do you expect with a bleeding edge
distro.
According to a user in another forum the problem is: "It fails to build due to
missing qt5-webkit which was removed from Factory half a year ago. So the available
binary is the one built half a year ago against older version of the libgit2. In the
meantime libgit2 was updated to newer version, so library needed by your software is no
more included in Tumbleweed."
That is a concise summary that could also be rewritten to state "Tumbleweed doesn't
care about its users and has no concept or understanding what it would mean to be used as
an operating system for software that isn't part of Tumbleweed".
That hostility against users that aren't part of the "all in" circle is
unfortunately not uncommon.
I am still a linux beginner and are not able to solve the problem by myself
e.g. through modifing Subsurface.
I would very politely suggest that you are on absolutely the wrong distribution
for a beginner.
Tumbleweed is a bleeding edge distribution that demonstrably does not try to be
useful for beginners and is inward focused on a certain set of power users who
rely on a self-contained ecosystem and no outside software.
The user I talked about above also considered that "QtWebKit is needed, if you want to print" and
the options are "modify Subsurface to use something else for printing support" or "build
Subsurface for openSUSE without printing support".
That user is correct - and also utterly unhelpful. Because neither of those are useful
responses to a "linux beginner".
Can anyone help with that or has other ideas?
Yes. Please switch to a different distribution that actually cares about you as
a user.
openSUSE Leap - if you want to stay in the SUSE ecosystem. Or Fedora 36. Or
Ubuntu. Those are likely your best three choices if using Subsurface is part of
what you want to do with your Linux box.
/D
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