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philja · 11-23-2015, 04:14 PM

Thanks to all who responded. Installing the mesa-common-dev package solved everything.

I know the old lap top I use for these experiments is slow (32 bit Dell recovered from a friend who had Windows XP on it), but the 'make' alone took longer to complete than it took me yesterday to find, download, install and get running the pre-compiled deb package.

Anyway, sigil 0.9.0 is now running on that laptop and I'll spend a little time to see how it goes before deciding whether I want to go thro all this again with my desktop mc.

I've already remade and improved my first epub book (originally fashioned using Calibre and its html editor) on sigil0.8.6 and I can see what a useful production tool sigil can be.

I've been using linux just over a year and I've built a few bits of software. It's certain that I know a lot more now than I did a year ago but there's a long way to go, I'm sure. Although there is a certain satisfaction when an applications gets built successfully, this is tempered by the realization of the time it takes because however detailed the instructions are, there has always been something missing.

Thanks again for all the contributions.

11-23-2015, 04:14 PM	#8
philja Addict Posts: 269 Karma: 516 Join Date: Nov 2015 Location: Europe EEC Device: Kindle Fire HD6 & HD8	Thanks to all who responded. Installing the mesa-common-dev package solved everything. I know the old lap top I use for these experiments is slow (32 bit Dell recovered from a friend who had Windows XP on it), but the 'make' alone took longer to complete than it took me yesterday to find, download, install and get running the pre-compiled deb package. Anyway, sigil 0.9.0 is now running on that laptop and I'll spend a little time to see how it goes before deciding whether I want to go thro all this again with my desktop mc. I've already remade and improved my first epub book (originally fashioned using Calibre and its html editor) on sigil0.8.6 and I can see what a useful production tool sigil can be. I've been using linux just over a year and I've built a few bits of software. It's certain that I know a lot more now than I did a year ago but there's a long way to go, I'm sure. Although there is a certain satisfaction when an applications gets built successfully, this is tempered by the realization of the time it takes because however detailed the instructions are, there has always been something missing. Thanks again for all the contributions.