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FreeFileSync, a very good folder comparison and synchronization tool (https://freefilesync.org/) is still on version 9.3 in the stable MX Linux package installer repo, but on the developer's website version 10.18 is currently available. Any plan to update it, please?

Thanks

I think we can't update it any further on your MX 17/18 Stretch base, but we do have 10.14 in MX 19 main. I'll take a look at 10.18.

https://repology.org/project/freefilesync/versions

It appears that 10.18 now requires gcc-9 to compile successfully. I was able to build it in a Debian testing pbuilder environment, which has that available, but not MX 19.

Before any newbies say, "well, I'll just add the Bullseye repo temporarily and install gcc-9!", it doesn't work that way, and you're pretty much going to make your install insane and broken.

Just a note - 10.18 is available from the FreeFileSync website as a binary. Install instructions should be similar to those for Ubuntu: https://www.linuxbabe.com/ubuntu/instal ... untu-16-04

Except for the part about installing gnome desktop to create a launcher. In MX it's already installed so you just right-click on the desktop and select Create Launcher.

JayM wrote: Tue Nov 26, 2019 11:11 pm Except for the part about installing gnome desktop to create a launcher. In MX it's already installed so you just right-click on the desktop and select Create Launcher.

Nice! That's even easier than using the MX Menu Editor which is what I was doing.