Good evening,
From: Bob Goodwin bobgoodwin@wildblue.net To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: extcalc: which repository? Message-ID: 564CAC6F.7020601@wildblue.net
On 11/18/15 11:41, William wrote:
Good morning,
I'm wanting to install "extcalc" (a graphics calculator) on my Fedora 22 system. But "apper" does not find it. I'd like to get "extcalc" from a repository that "dnf" and "apper" pay attention to so that it will be kept up-to-date auto-magically when I do my weekly patches. What repository that "dnf" can pay attention to has "extcalc"?
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You should already have "galculator" under Applications > Accesories if that will work for you.
-- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box10 FEDORA-23/64bit LINUX XFCE POP3
Thank-you, Bob. In fact, I do already have "galculator", and 2 other calculators. But none of them are graphics calculators - calculators that can plot functions. That is (part of) why I would like "extcalc".
Bill.
On 11/19/2015 12:08 AM, William wrote:
Good evening,
From: Bob Goodwin bobgoodwin@wildblue.net To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: extcalc: which repository? Message-ID: 564CAC6F.7020601@wildblue.net
On 11/18/15 11:41, William wrote:
Good morning,
I'm wanting to install "extcalc" (a graphics calculator) on my Fedora 22 system. But "apper" does not find it. I'd like to get "extcalc" from a repository that "dnf" and "apper" pay attention to so that it will be kept up-to-date auto-magically when I do my weekly patches. What repository that "dnf" can pay attention to has "extcalc"?
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Go to Google and input extcalc.rpm and you'll find several entries that are specific to Fedora, and some that do not seem to be specific. Download the file and install it with a root command line "rpm -Uvh filename.rpm" where the filename.rpm is the complete name of the downloaded file, complete with any version numbers, etc. (Without the quotes that I have used here, of course.) If the downloaded file has word spaces in it, then type \ before any space. The same goes for parentheses--both ( and ). Of course, the file will not be updated all the time, but so what? If it works now, it should continue to work on and on into the future.
--doug
On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 22:08:33 -0700 William mattison.computer@yahoo.com wrote:
Thank-you, Bob. In fact, I do already have "galculator", and 2 other calculators. But none of them are graphics calculators - calculators that can plot functions. That is (part of) why I would like "extcalc".
I took a quick look at the sourceforge page for this project, and it looks like it uses qt4 as its interface. So it might not work in latest Fedora versions, because they use qt5. It looks like development has stopped on this approximately two years ago, so to use it with qt5 would require modifying it yourself.
It might just require a few tweaks, but it could require more extensive alteration.