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dgz

#! CrunchBanger

Registered: 2011-11-22

Posts: 222

terminus and other frustrations.

after much pain last night i had to resort to installing statler as my aged laptop seems to be too worn out to boot from a dvd (needed for waldorf, it would seem) or a usb stick.

anyway, i'm looking for a way to aquire a) the terminus font, b) ranger file manager and c) xxxterm (xombrero) browser.

a) i've moved from a debian install that i don't remember having to install the terminus font onto, and despite having the console-terminus package installed i can see no way to actually use it as a terminal font (i plan to use it as a system/browser font too).

b) i remember with the apt pinning described in hardran3's guide i could previously download ranger via apt-get in statlet, but apparently this is no longer the case.

c) i think i remember this being in the repos in a xubuntu installation i was using for a while, but i'm essentially looking for a guide on how to compile this from source (or get it via any other easier means).

i don't necessarily need to find a way to install them all as packages, a clearcut guide on how to compile them from source would be just as useful. in the past no matter how closely i've followed any guide on how to do this i've been met with a throatful of fail.

anyhow, forgive my rambling. some help would be appreciated.

-digz

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rizzo

#! wanderer

From: ~/

Registered: 2008-11-25

Posts: 5,109

Re: terminus and other frustrations.

For the font try

sudo apt-get install xfonts-terminus

then change to it in Terminator's Preferences --> Profiles

rizzo

#! wanderer

From: ~/

Registered: 2008-11-25

Posts: 5,109

Re: terminus and other frustrations.

ranger is in the wheezy repos so the apt-pinning guide should work. Please provide more details on the commands you are using and any error messages you are encountering

dgz

#! CrunchBanger

Registered: 2011-11-22

Posts: 222

Re: terminus and other frustrations.

tripping over my own arrogance as usual.

for terminus i get this:

digztytwo@GREYSKULL:~$ sudo apt-get -t testing install xfonts-terminus
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package xfonts-terminus is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'xfonts-terminus' has no installation candidate
digztytwo@GREYSKULL:~$ sudo apt-get install xfonts-terminus
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package xfonts-terminus is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'xfonts-terminus' has no installation candidate

and for ranger:

digztytwo@GREYSKULL:~$ sudo apt-get -t testing install ranger
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package ranger
digztytwo@GREYSKULL:~$ sudo apt-get -t experimental install ranger
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package ranger

Last edited by dgz (2012-10-31 21:32:58)

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rizzo

#! wanderer

From: ~/

Registered: 2008-11-25

Posts: 5,109

Re: terminus and other frustrations.

That's strange I see it on the Debian package base as being available for squeeze http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/xfonts-terminus

I can successfully install it in wheezy. Perhaps install it from there

ranger isn't in experimental. The latest Debian package is in either wheezy or unstable http://packages.debian.org/search?searc … rds=ranger

Edit: Oh, I can see you've tried testing already.. see el_koraco's and my questions below

el_koraco

#!/loony/bun

From: inside Ed

Registered: 2011-07-25

Posts: 4,654

Re: terminus and other frustrations.

Make sure you have the deb-src lines in /etc/apt/sources.list uncommented. Then do:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get build-dep ranger
mkdir -p src && cd src
git clone git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/ranger.git
cd ranger
make 
sudo make install clean

For terminus, show me the output of

aptitude search terminus

rizzo

#! wanderer

From: ~/

Registered: 2008-11-25

Posts: 5,109

Re: terminus and other frustrations.

What happens if you run

apt-cache policy xfonts-terminus 

and the same thing for ranger?

dgz

#! CrunchBanger

Registered: 2011-11-22

Posts: 222

Re: terminus and other frustrations.

Make sure you have the deb-src lines in /etc/apt/sources.list uncommented.

done.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get build-dep ranger

updated, then:

digztytwo@GREYSKULL:~$ sudo apt-get build-dep ranger
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Ignore unavailable target release 'statler' of package 'ranger'
E: Unable to find a source package for 
digztytwo@GREYSKULL:~$ sudo apt-get -t testing build-dep ranger
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Ignore unavailable version '1.5.4-1' of package 'ranger'
E: Unable to find a source package for ranger

uncommenting deb-src and updating (although i did update post-install, to confirm) seems to have fixed terminus, my cli is looking friendly again.

edit- oh, and it appears to have worked for ranger too, despite the above error. thought it might be a quick fix.

Last edited by dgz (2012-10-31 22:37:02)

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el_koraco

#!/loony/bun

From: inside Ed

Registered: 2011-07-25

Posts: 4,654

Re: terminus and other frustrations.

It's the statler pin that's causing the problem. Show me

apt-cache policy ranger

dgz

#! CrunchBanger

Registered: 2011-11-22

Posts: 222

Re: terminus and other frustrations.

check the edit, seems uncommenting in sources.list fixed it. it's currently 'processing triggers for man-db' which i assume is taking quite a while because of the shit-tonne of dependencies. thanks a lot.

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el_koraco

#!/loony/bun

From: inside Ed

Registered: 2011-07-25

Posts: 4,654

Re: terminus and other frustrations.

Ah, I see. My instructions should be enough to build ranger. Make sure you have git and build-essential installed, though. Then to update in the future, you go to the ranger folder, issue a

 git pull 

and rebuild.

dura

Bloated Gimp

From: interzone

Registered: 2012-09-15

Posts: 2,081

Re: terminus and other frustrations.

ranger looks cool, might look at that...

dgz

#! CrunchBanger

Registered: 2011-11-22

Posts: 222

Re: terminus and other frustrations.

@dura/do, it comes highly recommended.
@koraco/i'll keep that in mind for future, thanks. looking forward to having an excuse to properly learn to build from source now.

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