Hello everyone: I have a friend I'm trying to convert to Linux. One of his major hobbies/interests is genealogy and I think it would be great if I could show him a Linux-based program that would meet his needs. Now, I've tried Gramps but have had no end of problems trying to get the thing to work. There seems to be some major problems between SuSE / gramps and rather that spending forever and a day trying to make it work, is there another Linux-based genealogy program that will work under SuSE? Any help greatly appreciated. Cheers, Mike
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 22:28, Mike Roy wrote:
Now, I've tried Gramps but have had no end of problems trying to get the thing to work. There seems to be some major problems between SuSE / gramps and rather that spending forever and a day trying to make it work, is there another Linux-based genealogy program that will work under SuSE? Any help greatly appreciated.
When you're looking for software in linux, your first port of call should be http://freshmeat.net, not everything is listed there, but it's damn close If you use konqueror, you can use the URL shortcut fm: to search freshmeat, for example fm:genealogy You will find a number of hits for projects you can check out
Op dinsdag 31 mei 2005 22:28, schreef Mike Roy:
Hello everyone: I have a friend I'm trying to convert to Linux. One of his major hobbies/interests is genealogy and I think it would be great if I could show him a Linux-based program that would meet his needs. Now, I've tried Gramps but have had no end of problems trying to get the thing to work.
Get it from the apt repository. A simple 'apt install gramps' will do the things for you. -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
* Mike Roy
I have a friend I'm trying to convert to Linux. One of his major hobbies/interests is genealogy and I think it would be great if I could show him a Linux-based program that would meet his needs.
I installed GeneWeb for my wife to use on my system. She has 39,706 individuals in it now. http://cristal.inria.fr/~ddr/GeneWeb/en/index.html ps: still using ver 4.09, appears 4.10 available
Now, I've tried Gramps but have had no end of problems trying to get the thing to work. There seems to be some major problems between SuSE / gramps and rather that spending forever and a day trying to make it work, is there another Linux-based genealogy program that will work under SuSE?
I, also, had no luck with gramps. A large number of individuals takes forever to open on my ancient 733mh hardware. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery
Op dinsdag 31 mei 2005 22:40, schreef Patrick Shanahan:
I, also, had no luck with gramps. A large number of individuals takes forever to open on my ancient 733mh hardware.
Which version 1.x? The one released recently 2.x tackled this problem, by moving to a real database instead of storing data in xml/gedcom (either one) only. Export to xml/gedcom is still possible though. The drawback is that you need a recent gnome, for suse that means you need version 9.3 -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
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Which version 1.x? The one released recently 2.x tackled this problem, by moving to a real database instead of storing data in xml/gedcom (either one) only. Export to xml/gedcom is still possible though. The drawback is that you need a recent gnome, for suse that means you need version 9.3
Looks like 1.07. Guess I will have to wait a bit. Have 9.3 and have installed at two friends, but have not shut my machine down to upgrade yet. Still on 9.0 and has been solid as a rock. 9.1 and 9.2 are on the shelf beside 9.3 <grin>. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery
Mike Roy skrev:
Hello everyone: I have a friend I'm trying to convert to Linux. One of his major hobbies/interests is genealogy and I think it would be great if I could show him a Linux-based program that would meet his needs. Now, I've tried Gramps but have had no end of problems trying to get the thing to work. There seems to be some major problems between SuSE / gramps and rather that spending forever and a day trying to make it work, is there another Linux-based genealogy program that will work under SuSE? Any help greatly appreciated. Cheers, Mike
You can try this program. Geneweb runs thru your browser
or this one:
I have managed to run Gramps with apt-get and SuSE 9.2 but i can not find Gramps 2. Gunnar
Op dinsdag 31 mei 2005 22:40, schreef Gunnar Håland:
I have managed to run Gramps with apt-get and SuSE 9.2 but i can not find Gramps 2.
You need suse-9.3 and gramps is available there via the apt repository. -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 21:28, Mike Roy wrote:
Hello everyone: I have a friend I'm trying to convert to Linux. One of his major hobbies/interests is genealogy and I think it would be great if I could show him a Linux-based program that would meet his needs. Now, I've tried Gramps but have had no end of problems trying to get the thing to work. There seems to be some major problems between SuSE / gramps and rather that spending forever and a day trying to make it work, is there another Linux-based genealogy program that will work under SuSE? Any help greatly appreciated. Cheers, Mike
I'm running Gramps 1.0.11-1 (installed via the wonderful apt-get) on 9.2, and it seems to work very well. What difficulties were you having precisely? Last week I imported a friend's genealogy data, put together on Family Tree on Microsoft Windows. It imported flawlessly all the data, notes, etc on 563 people (and looks far nicer than Family Tree into the bargain!). I've used Genj (http://genj.sourceforge.net) now and again in the past, but I think Gramps is now better. I'm interested to hear about the new version 2 - I need to check that one out - thanks Richard! -- Pob hwyl / Best wishes Kevin Donnelly www.kyfieithu.co.uk - Meddalwedd Rhydd yn Gymraeg www.cymrux.org.uk - Linux Cymraeg ar un CD!
Last week I imported a friend's genealogy data, put together on Family Tree on Microsoft Windows. It imported flawlessly all the data, notes, etc on 563 people (and looks far nicer than Family Tree into the bargain!). That's the sort of thing I want to hear. This genealogy thing would be one of the things that could keep my dad from using SuSE. He uses Family Tree and has a lot of data in it so it is nice to know that the
Kevin Donnelly wrote: linux software can import his data. Damon Register
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