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Hi there

I have fossapup64. And built-in Geany has no features for executing perl scripts in terminal etc.

So I decided to use great pkg cli utility by @sc0ttman to install a newer and possibly full version of Geany : and I got this:

root# pkg g--force get geany
Skipping geany (already built-in)..

So I decided to remove built-in package.. but it didn't help cause "it actually do not remove pkgs".

PPM also failed to help me.

So what can I do? Please give me an advice.

I know that if I use .sfs with Geany app it will be above the built-in one. But my idea is to try to use pkg

Hi there

I found this Geany 1.38 update on the forum but cannot find the original thread to give credit to the poster.

I am using the same OS as you and it works for me.

It is approx 3.3mb and I could not add it as an attachment to my message so have uploaded it here for you:

https://filebin.net/qjbwlqw5isuhfrey/ge ... x86_64.pet

Hope that helps!!

@Jasper is this the link? viewtopic.php?p=47572#p47572

@rockedge

Yes, that's the upload from Grey

I did thank him in his original post

takenp wrote: Sat Sep 24, 2022 7:16 pm

Hi there

I have fossapup64. And built-in Geany has no features for executing perl scripts in terminal etc.

So I decided to use great pkg cli utility by @sc0ttman to install a newer and possibly full version of Geany : and I got this:

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root# pkg g--force get geany
Skipping geany (already built-in)..

So I decided to remove built-in package.. but it didn't help cause "it actually do not remove pkgs".

PPM also failed to help me.

So what can I do? Please give me an advice.

I know that if I use .sfs with Geany app it will be above the built-in one. But my idea is to try to use pkg

pkg download <pkgname> --force
pkg install <pkgname> --force

...might do it

@sc0ttman this method has worked for me. Download the package then force install from local file.
Though I just clicked on the Geany 1.38 PET and it went to the right places and now geany reports it's at v1.38

Other way is to get the Geany and do what it takes to put in the ENV path before the built-in geany. So if Geany is in /usr/bin put the new geany in /bin

rockedge wrote: Sun Sep 25, 2022 4:35 pm

@Jasper is this the link? viewtopic.php?p=47572#p47572

So I had reinstalled Geany using @sc0ttman's suggestion then once more again using pets by @Grey
BTW I found many great plugins, thank you Grey!

But I did not find any terminal as well after that.

So I went to Documantation. And found. It says:

Virtual terminal emulator widget (VTE)
If you have installed libvte.so on your system, it is loaded automatically by Geany, and you will have a terminal widget in the notebook at the bottom.

So the installation was like this:

$ pkg search-all libvte
$ pkg get libvte-2.91-0

And Vua'la.

Thx all