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Hiero is an outliner/notetaker that fills a real hole in Linux applications, but it only exists (so far) as an Ubuntu PPA. See details here:

http://productivepenguin.blogspot.com/2 ... 6523433629

I've inquired about getting a straight Debian version, and the developer has suggested that someone from our distro produce one using his directions. This is beyond my capacity, but it would be a great addition to antiX or MX. Is there a way that a conversion from PPA to Debian could be done?

I'll have a look.

Hope this is just a case of being careful

Warning: Hiero is still undergoing initial development and as such it may contain significant bugs that could impact its usability. Please use appropriate caution and be sure to save your work regularly using CTRL-S.

hiero 1.1 is now available in the Testing MEPIS 12 Community Repository (used for both M12 & MX-14).
This was a trivial rebuild from the ppa, no substantive changes required.

For those still concerned about mono, hiero brings in a number of mono dependencies.

I'm not too concerned about mono...I caught it once when I was a teenager...got over it in a couple of weeks.

timkb4cq wrote:hiero 1.1 is now available in the Testing MEPIS 12 Community Repository (used for both M12 & MX-14).
This was a trivial rebuild from the ppa, no substantive changes required.

For clarification: How does an application in the Mepis repos affect its existence as a stand-alone Debian program?

Edit: Never mind. I found the link to Deb files on the Repo page.

Malanrich wrote:For clarification: How does an application in the Mepis repos affect its existence as a stand-alone Debian program?

Officially not at all.
For our repositories we backport Debian & Ubuntu packages and package programs that don't already have an existing debian style package from scratch. And as we are free to use those repositories & PPAs, others are free to use ours.
MEPIS 12 & MX-14 packages are Debian Wheezy compatible & MX-15 packages will be Debian Jessie compatible.
There are debian users who use our repositories for certain packages, and I'm fairly certain that some of our "from scratch" packages have led to official debian packages being built. But there's no official connection.

In case anyone is still interested in this topic after all these years (my how time flies), Hiero 2.x (developed in Vala/Gtk3) is now hosted on GitLab. The app itself can be downloaded at hiero-9c5607.gitlab.io. Incidentally, Hiero now has so few dependencies that its binary file alone can be copied onto most any Linux distro and it'll very likely run. All that would be missing is the install of the app's icon to the system menu plus convenient access to the user guide from the app's menu (you'd have to manually copy userguide.hro to the ".hiero" folder that gets created beneath your home folder upon the app's first run). Users of MX Linux can also install the app via either of its two available packages. From Hiero's web page on GitLab, you can choose either to install via the Debian package or the generic archive. In the image included here, I've installed Hiero using the latter. Cheers! - Barry

This topic now holds the record for dug up topic's age. *tips hat*