fslint on Kub 20.04?

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

rikona wrote:

>Just saw a note that said fslint could be installed by doing:

[SNIP]

>Some got it to work, others didn't. Would installing python2 do bad
>things when other python pgms run? ? What do you have to do to make
>it work? Why might it have failed for some? I'd reeeeeally like to
>run it - there's nothing that really replaces it. All ideas much
>appreciated.

I feel your pain on the loss of FSlint, but I wouldn't recommend
installing Python 2 to get it to run. This statement by the
people who create and maintain Python gives some good reasons why,
with lack of support being the main reason and possible future
security risks being another:

https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/

In addition, the FSlint home page doesn't say that it's not going
to be updated, but that's the feeling I get from that page:

http://www.pixelbeat.org/fslint/

It looks like it's being replaced by the czkawka project here:

https://qarmin.github.io/czkawka/

It's a Rust reimplementation that they say is more actively
maintained and allegedly easier to install (although having it in the
package manager would be the easiest). That's not in the Ubuntu
repositories yet, but perhaps it will be. There are links on that
page to various installation instructions if you want to try it.

-- 
Little Girl

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