[PLUG] Linux newbie needs guidance

[Richard Owlett]

On 05/26/2017 09:15 AM, Bill Barry wrote:
> On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 5:34 AM, Richard Owlett <rowlett at cloud85.net> wrote:
>
>> Though a computer _user_ from vacuum tube era, I'm still new to Linux.
>> I run Debian Stretch (Testing) and typically install using Synaptic or
>> apt-get.
>>
>> I am currently running Tomboy 1.14.1 from the Debian repository and wish
>> to run the latest version from upstream. There is not a .deb package for
>> it. I have downloaded & extracted
>> <https://download.gnome.org/sources/tomboy/1.15/tomboy-1.15.8.tar.xz>
>> to a directory set aside for non-Debian software.
>>
>> What to do after having backed-up my existing notes?
>>
>> I suspect it's only a couple of commands.
>> What I'm looking for is some documentation describing the process.
>> A cookbook solution would be nice but my goal is to know what I'm doing.
>>
>> My motto is "If retirement isn't for education, what use is it?"
>>
>> TIA
>>
>>
> While there may not be a deb package, it is possible that you can
> build one > from the source. Try this
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/BuildingTutorial
>

GROSS overkill and may not be applicable to MY goals.
It may have given hint for solving an unrelated problem that's been 
bugging me for eons.

Upstream considers the supplied file (once extracted) to be satisfactory 
for a typical user to trivially install tomboy. There are lots of 
scripts in top level. But I've no idea of which to run in what order.

richard at stretch-2nd:/usr/local/common/tomboy/tomboy-1.15.8$ dir 
--group-directories-first
data	   test        compile	     configure	   intltool-extract.in 
Makefile.in	  README
help	   Tomboy      config.guess  configure.ac  intltool-merge.in 
Makefile.include  tomboy.doap
libtomboy  aclocal.m4  config.h.in   COPYING	   intltool-update.in 
missing		  tomboy.spec
m4	   AUTHORS     config.rpath  depcomp	   ltmain.sh		NEWS		  tomboy.spec.in
po	   ChangeLog   config.sub    install-sh    Makefile.am		pot-update.in