trn...or equivalent?

[W. H. Heydt]

I checked (apt-cache search) and trn does not appear to be in the Raspbian repositories. Does anyone know of an equivalent program that is?

[trejan]

Packages for both trn 3.6 and trn 4.0-test77 are in the repo but they're not listed in the repo metadata for any of the Raspbian versions some reason.

[GlowInTheDark]

Packages for both trn 3.6 and trn 4.0-test77 are in the repo but they're not listed in the repo metadata for any of the Raspbian versions some reason.

How did you figure that out?

I.e., given that search doesn't reveal it, how did you know that it was there?

[trejan]

How did you figure that out?

I searched for trn using the Debian package tool and found it should be there for jessie and newer in the non-free section. I looked in the Raspbian repo for packages starting with t and found trn + trn4 there. I downloaded all the Package files and searched for trn/trn4 but found nothing.

[GlowInTheDark]

Makes sense.

Incidentally, trn is (or at least was) an easy compile-it-yourself.

I know I did that once, long ago, to add some feature or other that I needed.

You just have to hunt around for the source - which isn't too hard.

[W. H. Heydt]

Packages for both trn 3.6 and trn 4.0-test77 are in the repo but they're not listed in the repo metadata for any of the Raspbian versions some reason.

Interesting. Any easy way to get them listed, or should I just this post asking that they be added?

[trejan]

Interesting. Any easy way to get them listed, or should I just this post asking that they be added?

They're source packages so putting it into the Packages file wouldn't work. There isn't a binary for some unknown reason.

If you want to build the package then download it by reenabling the deb-src line in /etc/apt/sources.list then running "apt-get source trn4". Go into the trn4 directory and run "dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc". If you've got the various deps installed then a .deb should appear in the parent directory. Install it like any other .deb package.

[W. H. Heydt]

Interesting. Any easy way to get them listed, or should I just this post asking that they be added?

They're source packages so putting it into the Packages file wouldn't work. There isn't a binary for some unknown reason.

If you want to build the package then download it by reenabling the deb-src line in /etc/apt/sources.list then running "apt-get source trn4". Go into the trn4 directory and run "dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc". If you've got the various deps installed then a .deb should appear in the parent directory. Install it like any other .deb package.

Thanks for that method.

It was the binary that I was thinking to be desirable. Perhaps the maintainers of Raspbian don't think enough people would use it to make it worthwhile to include.

[trejan]

It was the binary that I was thinking to be desirable. Perhaps the maintainers of Raspbian don't think enough people would use it to make it worthwhile to include.

Plugwash and the other devs probably won't see this post down here in off topic. Make a post in the Raspbian forum to have it added?

[W. H. Heydt]

It was the binary that I was thinking to be desirable. Perhaps the maintainers of Raspbian don't think enough people would use it to make it worthwhile to include.

Plugwash and the other devs probably won't see this post down here in off topic. Make a post in the Raspbian forum to have it added?

Done.