Just upgraded to LMDE7, and that all went smoothly enough, but now MMEdit won't run.

Trying to run it from the terminal, revealed that the libraries that MMEdit needs, were obviously removed during the upgrade.

I tried to add them back in the usual way, but LMDE7 reports that one of the packages no longer seems to exist.  Any ideas?





Is there a specific repository I should be including?
It's just the default LMDE7 ones at the moment.

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Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops!

Linux doesn't believe in being backwards compatible.

Try sudo apt-get install qtbase5-dev
(without the webkit)

And download the latest version of MMEdit.

In the latest version, I changed the way the help is displayed to avoid the need for the webkit library. It now uses the default web browser (hopefully).

I forgot to remove the webkit from the install instructions.


Jim

  TassyJim said  

Linux doesn't believe in being backwards compatible.


Jim

It always used to do.  The kernel people still do.  The longer-term savvy users do.  Some of the ex-Windows people or ex-Windows users or just dumb newbies have sometimes fouled things up.  It's a great pity but can often be worked around (some links or even AppImage etc).

John
Edited 2026-08-25 19:42 by JohnS

I definitely qualify for the "just dumb newbies have sometimes fouled things up"

Jim

It's the shared objects/libraries which have too often lost their way, sadly it's often the GUI stuff.  Newer versions are meant to be 100% compatible with existing code.  Any new entry points (APIs) should be added later in the order of existing ones and so on.  Nothing rocket science about this but hey.

The S/N of too many forums has also been ruined.

Er, not really relevant to MMEdit except people foul things up for it.

John
Edited 2026-08-25 21:04 by JohnS

  JohnS said  

It's the shared objects/libraries which have too often lost their way, sadly it's often the GUI stuff.  Newer versions are meant to be 100% compatible with existing code.  Any new entry points (APIs) should be added later in the order of existing ones and so on.  Nothing rocket science about this but hey.

The S/N of too many forums has also been ruined.

Er, not really relevant to MMEdit except people foul things up for it.

John

John, check your PM