Is Dillo Missing From Natty's repos?

Jordon Bedwell jordon at envygeeks.com
Sun Aug 21 15:14:49 UTC 2011


On 08/21/2011 06:50 AM, Dejan Ribič wrote:
> Dne 21.8.2011 13:37, piše Graham Todd:
>> I can't find the Dillo web-browser in Natty's repos and I need it to be
>> able to use one of the html plugins with the Claws-Mail email package
>> (my MUA of choice).
>>
>> The Dillo web page gives only the source code, not the .deb binary, and
>> there are problems with the fltk dependency.  When compiling the source
>> code, a message is flagged that the FLTK dependency can't be found.
>>
>> I suppose I could go back to Lucid but that's like putting the clock
>> back.
>>
>> I haven't been keeping up with the forum lately as I've been in
>> hospital, but can anyone inform me why a dependency of one of the
>> listed items in Natty's repos is not included in the same repos?
>>
>> Dillo is a nice lightweight browser for most of my purposes (I have to
>> use Firefox sometimes, though) and I guess it would be the browser best
>> used by those with limited resources, so why can't I find it in the
>> repos for Natty?
>>
>>
> Hi,
> 
> well it says in README that you can get FLTK2 from:
> http://www.dillo.org/dillo-2.x/fltk-2.0.x-r7513.tar.bz2 so I would
> suggest that you do that, because it looks like that Dillo is curently
> under develepmont at launchpad: https://launchpad.net/dillo you can
> always join the team and help them make .deb packages.

Read: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=577019





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