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Gordon Cooper
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Gramps Update.

#1 Post by Gordon Cooper »

The genealogy application Gramps has had two recent releases 3.4.9 which is apparently the last of Version 3 series, and 4.1.3 which is
new and different. Our community repo has 3.4.0 and I would be grateful if this could be upgraded to Gramps 3.4.9.

Not sure about Vsn 4 yet, will test it out in 'buntu in a week or so.

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Re: Gramps Update.

#2 Post by Stevo »

I sort of remember looking at updating it some time back, but newer versions required some base system library update (python or GTK+). I'll double-check, otherwise we're looking at MX 15 for newer versions.

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Re: Gramps Update.

#3 Post by Stevo »

Got it to build on the Wheezy base, but it won't run:

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.gramps.gen.utils.grampslocale.WARNING: ICU not loaded because No module named PyICU. Localization will be impaired. Use your package manager to install PyICU
Your pygobject version does not meet the requirements.
At least pygobject 3.3.2 is needed to start Gramps with a GUI.
We need python3-icu and a newer python-gobject, which may not be backportable.

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Re: Gramps Update.

#4 Post by Gordon Cooper »

No hurry thanks Stevo, I've a pile of other things to do. By the time MX 15 appears I might have sorted out Gramps 4. Versions 3 & 4 are not directly compatible, so any data transferred has to be an exported to an intermediate step, then imported from that.

Update: Just seen your note about a build on Wheezy, but no run! Maybe shelve it meantime.

Update June 4th. @ Stevo

Now have Gramps 4.0.3 behaving on Kubuntu and imported most of the data from Gramps 3. Gramps 4 is a definite
improvement from earlier versions. Will wait for MX15 before any more use of Gramps in MX.
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Re: Gramps Update.

#5 Post by Stevo »

I do have 4.1.3 built and running on Jessie. It starts up with a few warning dialogs about missing features due to uninstalled packages that Debian only has as Recommends, plus another that'll have to be ported from Ubuntu. I'll make those hard dependencies.

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Re: Gramps Update.

#6 Post by duane »

Currently I have too many things going on to keep up with genealogy but one of these days I have to stop and try to catch up with that too.

I am glad it is being maintained even though I am not free to use it right now.

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Re: Gramps Update.

#7 Post by Gordon Cooper »

Stevo wrote:I do have 4.1.3 built and running on Jessie. It starts up with a few warning dialogs about missing features due to uninstalled packages that Debian only has as Recommends, plus another that'll have to be ported from Ubuntu. I'll make those hard dependencies.
That's great news. In the last hour have looked at 4.0.3 (2014 release) running on Kubuntu 14.04, and imported a data file from Gramps 3
running on MX14.4. No problems. The 4.0.3 lists a couple of missing modules, one for processing images, other is for gps location data. Not needing either at present and they're not in the 'buntu repos.

@ Duane. I've only just resurrected my genealogy work after two years with it on the shelf.
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Re: Gramps Update.

#8 Post by Stevo »

Odd, those missing modules are very probably in the repo, just under a different name, and are either in the suggested or recommended packages. For example, the image processing module is called python3-pil for the python3-based 4.1.3, just python-pil for the python2 4.0.3 version.

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Re: Gramps Update.

#9 Post by Gordon Cooper »

That's interesting about Python module names. At the minute am digging myself out of a deep hole. Had two versions of Python on that
Kubuntu system, decided to drop one file to see what effect on Gramps. Disaster! Synaptic went bonkers and deleted nearly
everything, so that I could not access Synaptic nor much else. Then could not exit without a power shutdown. Just re-installing K14.04 and
restoring my sense of humor.
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Re: Gramps Update.

#10 Post by uncle mark »

Gordon Cooper wrote:Just re-installing K14.04 and restoring my sense of humor.
How do you back that up?
Custom build Asus/AMD/nVidia circa 2011 -- MX 19.2 KDE
Acer Aspire 5250 -- MX 21 KDE
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