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I got to this site wanting to install the WordPress desktop app (debian version).
Could someone check it out as I did a search through MX package installer and synaptic but could not find the desktop app, or something other than (I think) was the server app).
I need to know if it is safe to install this deb file and the Gdebi app in my MX Linux ver 19.2
OR if someone could re-work it and place it in the MX package installer as im sure others would find a need for it . . . that is, I presume if it works that way :-)
https://itsfoss.com/install-wordpress-desktop-linux/
Download Wordpress .deb file from here: https://apps.wordpress.com/desktop/
file name: wordpress.com-linux-deb-6.0.2.deb

See if qtm in the stable repo will work for you. It supposedly lets you manage wordpress, movable type, drupal and textpattern blogs.

driesdej wrote: Tue Aug 18, 2020 1:00 am Could someone check it out as I did a search through MX package installer and synaptic but could not find the desktop app, or something other than (I think) was the server app).
I need to know if it is safe to install this deb file and the Gdebi app in my MX Linux ver 19.2

Gdebi is already installed by default on MX-19.

As far as the .deb being "safe", I can tell you its the actual Wordpress Desktop App, so its trustworthy.

But if you mean "safe" as does it install fine? Yes, it and required dependencies install fine and it at least opens. I can't test it fully right now.

wordpress (5.0.10+dfsg1-0+deb10u1) is in the Stable Repo of MX 19. The version you mention is obviously newer. Perhaps make a request for inclusion in the MX 19 Testing Repo.

Antediluvian wrote: Tue Aug 18, 2020 2:18 am wordpress (5.0.10+dfsg1-0+deb10u1) is in the Stable Repo of MX 19. The version you mention is obviously newer. Perhaps make a request for inclusion in the MX 19 Testing Repo.

That might be a bit difficult, it looks like no one has a working package for the latest version yet.
https://repology.org/project/wordpress/versions

I quickly looked at the tar.gz they provide, it isn't ready to build OOTB, so we'd have to take the latest Debian version and attempt to start with that and hope it builds fine or we'd have to spend who knows how many hours trying to get it right.

WordPress provides a .deb, right now that is probably the best way to get it as these types of things are moving target. That or a MXPI Popular Apps routine can be made for it.

I find right-clicking deb files in our two default file managers and choosing to install the deb file (Thunar) or Actions/Install Deb File (Dolphin) works faster, easier, and avoids Gdebi's quirks that it throws up sometimes. Those actions, as well as Gdebi, will pull in dependencies as well as refuse incompatible debs.

The right click action is a huge time saver...

Have 20 packages to test the install for... Right Click ... done!

Even better is to have the debs in local-apt-repository, so you can test how apt will handle metapackages and such, plus other arches necessary like i386 for Mesa or Nvidia drivers, but that takes a little bit of setting up...not much, though.

Adding those right-click actions to our default ISOs is just one of the bits of MX goodness that certain Debian purists seem to look down upon, though. The "not-invented-here" is strong in those ones.