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15 Aug 2019 18:51 #142271 by jensor

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jack@debian:~$ cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 7 (wheezy)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="7"
VERSION="7 (wheezy)"
ID=debian
ANSI_COLOR="1;31"
HOME_URL="www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="www.debian.org/support/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="bugs.debian.org/"

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16 Aug 2019 00:49 #142299 by cheng

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jensor wrote:
How do I do that?

Please follow the advice of tommylight. Update your software source。

you can see this link
linuxconfig.org/debian-apt-get-wheezy-sources-list

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16 Aug 2019 17:37 - 16 Aug 2019 17:38 #142327 by jensor

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the link:
linuxconfig.org/debian-apt-get-wheezy-sources-list
doesn't help.
I want to follow advice of tommylight, but don't understand how to.

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16 Aug 2019 19:07 #142332 by tommylight

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jensor wrote:
the link:
linuxconfig.org/debian-apt-get-wheezy-sources-list
doesn't help.
I want to follow advice of tommylight, but don't understand how to.

Sorry Jensor, but i do not have or use Wheezy so i do not know the menu structure so try to find a menu item named "software sources" or if you do not have that on the menu, use "synaptics" and in it's menu there should be a "software sources" item, open that and enable the " extras " repository.

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16 Aug 2019 19:11 #142333 by jensor

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I managed to find and download gedit-3.4.2.tar.xz
But cannot figure out how to get it working. See below:

jack@debian:~/Downloads$ ls
gedit-3.4.2.tar.xz
jack@debian:~/Downloads$ tar xf gedit-3.4.2.tar.xz
jack@debian:~/Downloads$ ls
gedit-3.4.2 gedit-3.4.2.tar.xz
jack@debian:~/Downloads$ gedit
bash: gedit: command not found
jack@debian:~/Downloads$ install gedit-3.4.2
install: missing destination file operand after `gedit-3.4.2'
Try `install --help' for more information.
jack@debian:~/Downloads$

What should the destination file operand be?

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22 Aug 2019 16:53 #142857 by andypugh

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That xz file is zipped:

gunzip gedit-3.4.2.tar.xz

you should now have a tar file

tar -xvf gedit-3.4.2.tar

You may then have a folder of files. Probably source code. Which will need compiling and will have a lot of dependencies.

I the resulting file is a .deb then

sudo dpkg --install gedit-3.4.2.deb

`But, really, on Debian Gedit has too many dependencies to be a good choice. It depens on the Gnome desktop and you will end up installing all of that, but ot using it.

Geany is lighter and standalone.

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