Skencil 0.6.17 on Ubuntu 7.10

Definitively, the .deb binary for Ubuntu of skencil is broken, it doesn't work. According I have read in the Internet, it fails because Ubuntu 7.10 uses Python 2.5, which is incompatible with skencil. Fortunately, surfing the web I found on http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-679508.html the hack to compile from source skencil. The trick is to install Python 2.4 concurrently with 2.5 . From that webpage:

FENIAN: I got skencil working by doing this,open a terminal and enter the following lines (enter each line seperately)...

sudo apt get install tcl8.4-dev tk8.4-dev

cd /tmp

sudo apt-get install python2.4 python2.4-dev build-essential

sudo apt-get remove skencil

sudo apt-get source skencil

cd skencil-0.6.17/

sudo python2.4 setup.py configure --prefix=/usr/local

sudo python2.4 setup.py build

sudo python2.4 setup.py install

sudo perl -pi -e 's,env python,env python2.4,' /usr/local/lib/skencil-0.6.17/*.py


You can start skencel from the terminal by typing...

skencil