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Re: how to install cherrytree?



On 13/07/2020 21:42, kaye n wrote:
Hello Friends!
Having trouble installing cherrytree app.

kaye@laptop:~$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for kaye:
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease      
Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease                            
Get:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease [51.9 kB]          
Hit:4 https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian buster InRelease  
Fetched 51.9 kB in 6s (8,526 B/s)                                              
Reading package lists... Done
kaye@laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install cherrytree
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package cherrytree

thank you for your time!
by the way thank you for the calculator suggestions in my previous thread.

https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=cherrytree tells me that cherrytree is currently only available in the stretch (oldstable) and jessie (oldoldstable) suites.

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/cherrytree tells me that cherrytree was removed from Debian in 2017, here is the removal report: https://tracker.debian.org/news/864463/cherrytree-removed-from-testing/

Now, that removal report isn't terribly clear. The removal reason appears to be "Bug #867787: cherrytree: Changes sometimes not saved". #867787 was a grave bug against cherrytree which, presumably, was not fixed in time for a release, so the package was dropped (in other words, it wasn't being maintained).

However, there is hope for it to return in the future, https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=947338 also includes the following:

------------------- Reason -------------------
RoQA; python2-only; depends on pygtk/gtksourceview, deprecated; upstream is rewriting it in C++, so there's no hope for a py3k port
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