Re: How dead is f-spot

[Dougie Nisbet <dougie highmoor co uk>]

On 05/02/16 16:06, Stephen Shaw wrote:
> Dougie:
> What version of mono do you have? If you can get up to 4.x you won't 
> need anything like gmcs, etc).
Not sure, 4.x I think:

ii  mono-4.0-gac 4.2.2.30-0xamarin1                   all          Mono 
GAC tool (for CLI 4.0)
ii  mono-4.0-service 4.2.2.30-0xamarin1                   all          
Mono service manager for CLI 4.0
ii  mono-complete 4.2.2.30-0xamarin1                   amd64        
complete Mono runtime, development tools and all libraries
ii  mono-csharp-shell 4.2.2.30-0xamarin1                   all          
interactive C# shell
ii  mono-devel 4.2.2.30-0xamarin1                   all          Mono 
development tools
ii  mono-dmcs 4.2.2.30-0xamarin1                   all          Mono C# 
4.0 compiler for CLI 4.0 (transitional package)
ii  mono-gac 4.2.2.30-0xamarin1                   all          Mono GAC tool
ii  mono-jay 4.2.2.30-0xamarin1                   amd64        LALR(1) 
parser generator oriented to Java/CLI
ii  mono-mcs 4.2.2.30-0xamarin1                   all          Mono C# 
2.0 / 3.0 / 4.0 / 5.0  compiler for CLI 2.0 / 4.0 / 4.5
ii  mono-runtime 4.2.2.30-0xamarin1                   amd64        Mono 
runtime - default version
ii  mono-runtime-common 4.2.2.30-0xamarin1                   
amd64        Mono runtime - common files
ii  mono-runtime-sgen 4.2.2.30-0xamarin1                   amd64        
Mono runtime - SGen
ii  mono-utils 4.2.2.30-0xamarin1                   amd64        Mono 
utilities


I hardlinked gmcs to mcs in /usr/bin and that allowed me to get a bit 
further. I got there in the end - mostly just recursively looping round 
satisfying dependencies. Does this look right?

dougie skye:~$ which f-spot
/usr/local/bin/f-spot
dougie skye:~$ f-spot --version
F-Spot 0.9.0
http://f-spot.org
    (c)2003-2009, Novell Inc
    (c)2009 Stephane Delcroix
Personal photo management for the GNOME Desktop


Initial attempts to run pretty flaky, crashing on most attempts to 
import. I've tried clearing out old files from ~/.config/f-spot as it 
found an old database from 2013! Anything else I can do to give it a 
fresh start?

Dougie