I’m having some first world problems getting a few tools I use regularly to work on the Pocket Reform and wondered whether others have any advice!
First of all, at the time of writing three packages in Trixie/Sid are reporting bugs that have led me to hold on upgrading (libxml2, firefox and binutils), and that has knockon effects on efforts to build other things.
The key package I want to use is Joplin, which is my primary note-keeping app. They don’t support ARM64 directly.
- There is an AppImage, and trying to run that gets so far (via box64) and then crashes with a SIGABRT
- I could attempt to build it, but that requires node/yarn/webpack, and when I try to install all of that, I’m getting package conflicts with the held back testing packages.
Another thing I generally use is [standby; I’m trying something with this one right now, so it might go away] - I was missing various dev libraries like zip and ssl, now resolved.pyenv, but I’m currently unable to install Python versions as they fail with unable to find a C compiler (again, possibly due to not having updated binutils, I’m not sure). In this case I’d like to be able to use the toot Python TUI for Mastodon, but I’m not getting past the runtime hurdle.
Apart from those though, I’ve got a number of the things I usually install on a Linux system installed without issues (tailscale, NordVPN, jq, ripgrep, gh, atuin, mosquitto, tio etc) so I’m pretty happy!