Installing PureBasic 5.22 on Linux Mint 17 / Ubuntu Trusty T

[Fred]

These libs are old, and we need to rework the printer lib for new linux distro, but unfortunately it's not as easy as it sounds, as it doesn't fit with the current PB commandset. So we are investigating. These libs are only required if you need the printer lib, you can ignore them else.

[useful]

multi-platform library of the formation of ODF/PDF would solve the problems of interaction with the physical printer

[Mimo el Gato]

Buenos días
I think there is no immediate solution, it was important as I developed an interface to a telecom security chain which is installed and running on a regional telecom supervision system. The purpose of the program is to log an alarm loop, print an order of intervention on the spot for an engineer to dispatch a technical team, log and report the end of alarm and file the failure and solution found by te technicians in a nationwide database in Lima. The software (and related acquisition hardware) work now since 6 months 24/24 and was validated for further deployment.
Shame on me, 2 years ago, I pushed this customer to remove his (not very legal) windows systems (we are in Peru) in favor of Linux Cinnamon 13 LTS, arguing about the stability issues and legality, which has proven to be right until now.
Luckily I anticipated the customer's next move to Mint 17, and I will retain the Customer to move (Mint 13 has still about 3 years of LTS) as it is not a death or life matter, or at least until a solution is found to this problem to recompile the program under Mint 17. I just hope there will not be a hardware failure forcing them to acquire too recent hardware.
Best regards

[Mimo el Gato]

Good afternoon to all

The problem was solved today morning thanks to the Mint17 Fr forum where I posted a request for solution.
In the case anybody else is confronted to this problem, it is simple to solve:
You must add the following repository to the current list of repositories of Mint:
" deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu precise main universe ", then update your list of repositories and lauch Fred's script.
You can replace mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu by any of the ones listed on the list of the page.
The complete list of possible repositories for these libs is at:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/amd6 ... v/download

The problem is that those libraries are now old (12.04 /Mint 13 Maya), and >I am fearing that one day they will definitely deprecate them or some of their dependencies, which will lead to a true problem for PB/linux users.

Thanks to all and best regards

[rsts]

Thanks for coming back and posting a solution

cheers

[Mimo el Gato]

Good morning
No pbm, collaboration must function in the 2 ways, from this depends also the quality and good reputation of a product.
Best regards

[luis]

@Mimo el Gato

Unfortunately I didn't see this thread.

http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtop ... 34#p444734

[Mimo el Gato]

@Luis,
Good afternoon,
Sorry, I just went to see your link, which answers all the pBm. I did not see it at all when seeking, I got the same infos on the Linux Mint forum.
It is not that evident to find the right thread in the right time on any forum now.

When I performed the instals on Ubuntu 12.x an 13.x as well as Mint, we did not see that problem at all as I think the repository links were right positioned and applying the recommendation issued by the script was straiforward, but this was different this time with the instals of 14.04 based systems. I do not know why, but it seems (and I was told too) that number of libraries are on the way of deprecation and possibly moving onto other repositories. Is this true, I do not know, but it may become a problem in the future.
Best regards and thank You