Does anyone know if we can expect Gramps 4.1.0 to be integrated with OpenSuse 13.1 any time soon? (The current 4.0.1 has a few wee irritating bugs :()
There seems to be version 4.0.4 in the GNOME:Apps and some have built 4.1.0 in their private repositories:
http://software.opensuse.org/package/gramps
Hello,
it runs here without problems.
You can install it from my repo here: 1-Click-Install
But as a precaution make backup before.
Many thanks, that worked a treat
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Gramps 4.0.4 is in Factory. But any attempt to install it seems not to work anyway…hmmm:\
What? It’s Build Service, not Factory.
If you get errors trying to install it from the 12.3 Gnome:Apps Repository, post them here.
Apparently you got it from Ecsos repo anyway so ignore this.
Well, if I follow the link you gave (http://software.opensuse.org/package/gramps), I end up on page offering Gramps 4.0.1 (but not 4.0.4). Clicking on ‘show other versions’ leads me to a list where Gramps 4.0.4 is shown in OpenSuse Factory
You need to click on the “openSUSE 12.3” button then the “Unstable packages”, the unstable is… let’s just say it’s not a word they should use there. I don’t know why they have it there.
Why Opensuse 12.3? I am running Opensuse 13.1?
Would Gramps 4.0.4 integrated with OS 12.3 be sure to work on OS 13.1?
My bad, I meant 13.1 - I was just helping someone who was using 12.3 and ermhhth,… my brain is jello from all this heat. Apologies.
Anyway, it’s the same thing - it’s listed under the unstable packages - just for 13.1, of course.
After 25 years, a brick wall came down! 5 years ago, I emailed a site for info. I got an answer today! Because nothing happened in decades, I stopped playing with my genealogy a few years ago. I even “lost” my database, but found it in an old backup. That’s when I discovered I didn’t have GRAMPS installed. I installed this version but it will not open my old .grdb file. A dialogue box tells me to get a 3.0 version of GRAMPS to open it and export it in a different file format. The GRAMPS website has reference to 3.48 but I’m not sure I can install it or if it is old enough. Oddly, I can open a backup version of my file, but that doesn’t contain images.
Has anyone done this export to re-import? Can I use the 3.48 version? Does anyone have an older version?
I don’t know oS version you use since you didn’t state it but there’s a user contributed 3.4.6 in the home repositories; http://software.opensuse.org/package/gramps
Show other versions -> Show unstable packages.
I find it mildly ironic that they call home repositories “unstable packages” when many times they are more stable than the actual versions published by the oS release team.
On Fri, 06 Feb 2015 07:46:02 GMT
Prexy <Prexy@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> After 25 years, a brick wall came down! 5 years ago, I emailed a site
> for info. I got an answer today! Because nothing happened in decades,
> I stopped playing with my genealogy a few years ago. I even “lost” my
> database, but found it in an old backup. That’s when I discovered I
> didn’t have GRAMPS installed. I installed this version but it will not
> open my old .grdb file. A dialogue box tells me to get a 3.0 version
> of GRAMPS to open it and export it in a different file format. The
> GRAMPS website has reference to 3.48 but I’m not sure I can install
> it or if it is old enough. Oddly, I can open a backup version of my
> file, but that doesn’t contain images.
>
> Has anyone done this export to re-import? Can I use the 3.48 version?
> Does anyone have an older version?
>
>
I found this reply in a thread on gmane.comp.genealogy.gramps.user
(news server gmane.org). It looks like it may be a simple solution
as it doesn’t involve installing another version of gramps.
The post is also in the mailing-list archive at
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.genealogy.gramps.user/18041
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On 7/17/14, Jean Rouche <jean.rouche@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Jerome, Paul,
>
> I have downloaded the most recent CD of the list :
> https://gramps-project.org/cdrom/lgenealogy-6.1-desktop-i386.iso…
>
> Then I have opened Gramps in using this live CD, imported the two family
> trees and exported as XML format.
>
> I then successfully have imported the two family trees in the last Gramps
> version (Ubuntu 14.04).
>
> The secret seems to be to find a version of Ubuntu recent enough to be
> accepted by the PC and old enough to accept the format GRDB…
>
> Thank you very much !
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Jean
That’s very good to know!! Congratulations!
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Graham Davis [Retired Fortran programmer - now a mere computer user]
openSUSE Tumbleweed (64-bit); KDE 4.14.4; Kernel: 3.18.3;
Processor: AMD Phenom II X2 550; Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (using
nouveau driver); Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
Thanks for your help. It will be good to get back to researching after years of being dormant!