<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>If know how to build from source then PPAs work on PowerPC. <br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Aug 9, 2015, at 2:06 PM, Israel <<a href="mailto:israeldahl@gmail.com">israeldahl@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/09/2015 11:13 AM, Fritz Hudnut
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I am was trying to explain not to use the
12.04 version of<br>
LXDE, sorry if that was unclear.<br>
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To recap:<br>
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You can install a PPA to have an up-to-date
WM/DE (possibly<br>
even LXDE).<br>
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So yes, you CAN stay on 12.04.<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Just a little humor to help brighten my
day . . . . : - ) But, appreciate the re-post on installing
a PPA for the WM/DE . . . where could I find data on how to do
that? For, in my case, XFCE 12.04? Do I have to go to
<a href="http://XFCE.org">XFCE.org</a> web site? Or somewhere on Launchpad will be the XFCE
PPA data/key number?? Or, I can use GUI Software Center to
find and add PPA??<br>
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Hi Fritz,<br>
I have no idea about XFCE PPA... but to add a PPA from the terminal
you do:<br>
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:<PPANAME><br>
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I think there is some sort of GUI for PPAs available from a PPA...
but I am a terminal person, so I don't know...<br>
You could do a search for one, but it may not exist. I do have a
JWM PPA that I keep up to date with github if you want :)<br>
Of course <b>if you are using PPC </b>(which you usually are)<b> a
PPA will not help</b>. You will need to go through <b>more</b>
effort, though you don't need a PPA for it... but it is MUCH more
effort.<br>
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In short:<br>
install all the ubuntu packaging tools<br>
bzr branch the launchpad repo for all the XFCE stuff<br>
then build the dsc file.<br>
Then create the pbuilder base for precise<br>
then use pbuilder to build the Deb.<br>
then cd ~/pbuilder/precise_result<br>
then sudo dpkg -i *.deb<br>
whew...<br>
PPC is the more complicated route, always :)<br>
Of course the project might use CMake, and if it does you could
potentially use cpack... but that is another story.<br>
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That said, I might have time to build JWM and jwm-settings-manager
for PPC sometime if you are interested in it. I just need to work
on the PPC again, I haven't had the time for it recently.<br>
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