One option would be to use the tar'd package they include on their website. It contains most of the required libraries (including QT) runs on Debian Stable as is. https://apps.ankiweb.net/#linux Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > Hi Ralph, > > On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 08:18:32AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > On Thu, 10 May 2018 07:44:26 +0100 > > Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > (CC me.) > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I was about to recommend package anki to a young student that's > > > learning computing, but then realised the it's missing from Debian > > > stable due to the Qt4 → Qt5 switch. It's in old-stable and unstable. > > > https://packages.debian.org/jessie/anki > > > https://packages.debian.org/sid/education/anki > > > > > > I'd guess this makes it a contender for backports > > > > No - it needs to be in testing to be a contender for stretch-backports. > > > > So that means fixing the three RC bugs in unstable first. > > > > Updating anki introduces new bugs: #855942, #856110, #895411 > > > > >, especially since it > > > isn't just old on stable, but missing; that must cause problems for > > > oldstable users that upgrade. > > > > > > Apologies if this list is the wrong place to raise this; > > > > It's the right place but the package is not currently suitable. > > Sadly, even if those RC bugs are fixed, a stretch-backport of Anki > looks like is probably infeasible due to a hard dependency on QT ≥ 5.9 > ( https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=855942#18 ), while > stretch has 5.7.1. AFAIK, if qt-5.9 was backported it would break > every QT package in stretch, which would then need to be rebuild > against it and also uploaded to backports. Consequently it doesn't > seem like it will be possible to provide Anki in stretch :-( > > I'd be happy to be wrong! > Sincerely, > Nicholas -- John Eikenberry [ jae@zhar.net - http://zhar.net ] [ PGP public key @ http://zhar.net/jae_at_zhar_net.gpg ] ________________________________________________________________________ "Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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