kakoune: Can't install on Ubuntu
Tried following the Debian instructions to install on Ubuntu. Had to apt-get install debmake first, then hit this error:
contrib/make_deb.bash: line 186: a2x: command not found
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- State: closed
- Created 8 years ago
- Comments: 26 (17 by maintainers)
The actual commands for building on Ubuntu are correct, but the bit about Ubuntu 16.04 is incorrect. A bit further up the page it says Kakoune requires a C++17 compiler, like GCC >= 7. GCC 5.4 isn’t nearly enough, sadly.
I also had a problem with installing kakoune which was fixed by using a newer version of g++. Maybe this should be in the tips for Ubuntu in the README?
Instead of messing with the executables in /usr/bin, I’d just set the CC and CXX environment variables to point to gcc-5 and g+±5