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nedit 1:5.6a-2 segfault with Wily

Asked by LloydM999

I installed nedit with apt-get update, but when I run it I get

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I can run nedit -version:
NEdit released by Debian (1:5.6a-2)

     Built on: Linux, x86-64, GNU C
   With Motif: (Untested) 2.3.4 [@(#)Motif Version 2.3.4]
Running Motif: 2.3 [@(#)Motif Version 2.3.4]
       Server: The X.Org Foundation 11702000
       Visual: 24-bit TrueColor (ID 0x21, Default)
       Locale: en_US.UTF-8

This problem seems like a bug reported for version 1:5.6-1:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nedit/+bug/1415309

So is this a still-unfixed bug? If so, is there a workaround?

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LloydM999 (lloydm999) said : 		#1

correction: installed with sudo apt-get install nedit

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

What is the output of:

lsb_release -a; uname -a; apt-cache policy nedit

Thanks

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Best Paul Gevers (paul-climbing) said : 		#3

If you have the same bug as you already linked, installing xfonts-75dpi and xfonts-100dpi should solve your problem. They should now be pulled in by Motif. So if installing them solves your problem, you are probably not installing "recommends".

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LloydM999 (lloydm999) said : 		#4

Thanks Paul Gevers, that solved my question.

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LloydM999 (lloydm999) said : 		#5

Paul Gevers -

I don't understand what "installing recommends" means. Is there a way to install nedit with apt-get without having to install the missing fonts separately?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#6

I suggest you report this on the bug so that the package deps are updated to pull the xfonts packages in automatically

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Paul Gevers (paul-climbing) said : 		#7

On 14-03-16 08:43, actionparsnip wrote:
> I suggest you report this on the bug so that the package deps are
> updated to pull the xfonts packages in automatically

Please don't. The xfonts are already in the recommends of motif. As
described by the Debian policy (which I guess is also valid for Ubuntu
packages) you should not Depend on xfonts. See the comments in the
linked bug report.

Paul

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Paul Gevers (paul-climbing) said : 		#8

On 14-03-16 00:22, LloydM999 wrote:
> I don't understand what "installing recommends" means. Is there a way to
> install nedit with apt-get without having to install the missing fonts
> separately?

By default, apt-get installs Recommends of packages. However, you can
configure to NOT do that. My guess is that you did that (maybe by accident).

Paul