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    From Wond@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 24 21:43:59 2020
    Oh-oh no traffic in the Ruby group. Doesn't bode well for my difficulty!

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  • From Doc O'Leary@21:1/5 to Wond on Fri Feb 28 15:46:44 2020
    For your reference, records indicate that
    Wond <lost@the.ether.net> wrote:

    Oh-oh no traffic in the Ruby group. Doesn't bode well for my difficulty!

    Well nobody lurking is a psychic either, so if you don’t actually ask your Q’s you’re absolutely guaranteed not to get any A’s.

    --
    "Also . . . I can kill you with my brain."
    River Tam, Trash, Firefly

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  • From Wond@21:1/5 to Doc O'Leary on Mon Mar 2 23:28:16 2020
    On Fri, 28 Feb 2020 15:46:44 +0000, Doc O'Leary wrote:

    For your reference, records indicate that Wond <lost@the.ether.net>
    wrote:

    Oh-oh no traffic in the Ruby group. Doesn't bode well for my
    difficulty!

    Well nobody lurking is a psychic either, so if you don’t actually ask
    your Q’s you’re absolutely guaranteed not to get any A’s-certainty.html

    Yes. I suppose it was like shouting from a hilltop.
    My daughter committed her entire book collection, some hundreds of
    books, to Alexandria software, the free version, years ago. It stopped
    working a couple of years back, HW and SW too old, and couldn't update.
    Now she has a Dell Latitude I5, and I found a free .deb package for
    Alexandria. Accordingly I put LMDE-3-201808 on it, loaded the Ruby
    packages from the repo (2xx), and tried the .deb. Complaint: requires
    Ruby 1.7. All of the older Ruby packages require compiling. so I wonder=
    Is there an easier way? I obtained Ruby 1.78, is it likely to work if
    correctly installed? How critical are the changes in version? I haven't
    installed using "make" for a very long time, I'll have to relearn the
    process! See how spoiled we get..
    Thanks, I appreciate your reply.

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  • From Doc O'Leary@21:1/5 to Wond on Thu Mar 5 22:51:21 2020
    For your reference, records indicate that
    Wond <lost@the.ether.net> wrote:

    My daughter committed her entire book collection, some hundreds of
    books, to Alexandria software, the free version, years ago. It stopped
    working a couple of years back, HW and SW too old, and couldn't update.

    Presumably you’re talking about this:

    https://github.com/mvz/alexandria-book-collection-manager

    While some of it does look quite old, updates have been made fairly recently. Give it a go on a modern system and see if it works for you. If not, keep in mind that the specifics of installing software might not be exactly a Ruby question, even if said software was written in Ruby. You might find better solutions to your particular problem in a Linux newsgroup, or perhaps the
    best move forward is to find a way to simply recover the book collection data so that it is usable by another app that you find to be more stable.

    --
    "Also . . . I can kill you with my brain."
    River Tam, Trash, Firefly

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