rm42 Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 I am trying to install Krita but I can't find it in the repos. The only thing I found was libkritargbf16hdr5-1.9.95.4-1mdv2009.0.i586, but I was unable to install it due to libkoodf.so.5 being missing. Does any one know how to get Krita installed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoonma Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 Krita's homepage leads me to the suggestion that you should install the KOffice package first, then with the library you found it's possibly enough. See also http://www.koffice.org/krita/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rm42 Posted January 29, 2009 Author Share Posted January 29, 2009 Koffice is not found in the repos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 Have you set up your repo's with easy-urpmi? (see link at top of this page) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 There's no krita or any Koffice package for Mandriva 2009.0. It is available in cooker and it's supposed to be included in 2009.1 packages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 (edited) If it helps, I can see koffice, koffice-krita and a bunch of libkrita* packages in the 2008.1 repos. I don't know which version of Mandriva the OP has? Also I don't know if the 2008.1 packages would install on 2009.0, I guess not since there must be a reason why it's not included in the 2009 repos... Edit: Ok, I guess the OP must have 2009 from the package name... Edited January 29, 2009 by neddie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 Strange that koffice never existed in Mandriva 2009.0, maybe Mandriva had a reason for not packaging it or something, but still odd, since it's probably been with every previous release. Ah well, never mind, guess we have to wait for 2009.1 to go stable to get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 According to comment #5 in bug # 44822 upstream koffice team asked on packager ML to linux distribution to NOT package beta1. So we have respected our wish and didn't packaged it.In other words, when 2009.0 was released upstream Koffice was a beta version so it was not included. Adam said (when he worked for Mandriva) that if Koffice 2.0 final comes out, it would be added to the 2009 repos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tux99 Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 What's incomprehensible to me is, why didn't they include the last stable version then. There is always a newer beta or dev version out, but that's not a reason not to include koffice at all... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 That's what I find weird, block a beta and completely forget about the last stable release that was available at that present time. Weird..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 (edited) KOffice 1.6 (latest stable) is for QT/KDE 3, Mandriva 2009.0 has QT/KDE 4 as the default, the latest KOffice for KDE4 is still in beta. I'm going to guess that's why - they didn't want to have to mess with trying to get KOffice 1.6 running on a KDE4-based system (or wasn't technically possible for some reason). Edited January 30, 2009 by tyme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rm42 Posted January 30, 2009 Author Share Posted January 30, 2009 Well, they did include K3B, right? Any way, the good thing is that I run Mandy on a multiboot laptop. So, I can run Krita from Fedora or PCLinuxOS (which by the way has finally released "The Big Update"). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Exactly, if they had K3B, then they had kdelibs3 and QT3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medo3891 Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 (edited) Exactly, if they had K3B, then they had kdelibs3 and QT3 No, not really. K3b is a small app but the mighty koffice is really big. It would have meant a lot of work that would only benefit the users for a rather short time since koffice 2 was nearing its release. You have to think about it from a limited man-power point of view. Edited February 1, 2009 by medo3891 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkerr82508 Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 IIRC, but could be wrong (my memory is not too reliable these days), Mandriva had intended to include koffice2 beta in 2009.0. The request from the koffice dev's not to do so came late in in the development cycle and there was neither time nor resources to package and test koffice for 2009.0. Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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