Comments on: Unison 2.27.57 on Debian Etch and Ubuntu Hardy

By: Philipp C. Heckel

Philipp C. Heckel — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:57:35 +0000

Hey Mike,

thanks for the comment, I just modified the post a little saying that other editors are of course possible. I now use “editor”, which is a symbolic link to the default editor of the system; for Ubuntu this is ‘nano’ I think. You can change this by calling update-alternatives.

Regards,
Philipp

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:37:56 +0000

Hey, instead of using vi which is a little hard to use(if your not use to cli) to edit a simple text file, you might recomend anther editor, like nano or gedit

By: Tunya

Tunya — Sun, 10 May 2009 15:39:58 +0000

hi i know that such a comment doesn’t make much sense, BUT YOU JUST SAVED MY LIFE WITH THIS!!! Thank you.

By: Carlos Martinez

Carlos Martinez — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:38:48 +0000

Hi Phillip,

I put your unison 2.27 binary (with full credits to you) in my blog, so to provide a mirror.

The URL is http://cagnazzo.name/drupal/unison_227_etch

best regards

Carlos

By: Charl Botha

Charl Botha — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:58:59 +0000

For anyone that needs unison 2.27 on Gutsy as well (Ubuntu 7.10), I’ve backported the DEBs as well: http://cpbotha.net/2008/11/22/backport-of-unison-22757-to-ubuntu-710/

By: Vladimir Wiedermann

Vladimir Wiedermann — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:59:53 +0000

Thanks for the hints with plink. Anyway, if you do not need to install the 2.27.57 globally, there is a simple solution:

Download unison 2.27.57 from sid, and unpack unison-2.27.57 binary from downloaded deb file. You need to modify plink-cmd.bat to contact your local binary instead of the global installation, and that’s all.

By: DarkRat

DarkRat — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:13:08 +0000

thanks man, you saved me a lot of work with that binary

By: Andrew Challen

Andrew Challen — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:16:30 +0000

Thanks for your tips they helped me build a .deb to install. After a long time playing around building my own .deb i found that the one in “testing” almost compiles, simply run the following instead of “make” and if you have all the build dependancies installed, a few apt-get’s and you will, it will build you two .deb which you can install with dpkg -i unison*.deb

awk ‘{gsub(/Build-Depends: .*/, “Build-Depends: cdbs (>= 0.4.23), debhelper (>= 5), dpatch, ocaml-nox (>= 3.09.2-9), liblablgtk2-ocaml-dev (>= 2.6.0-7), chrpath, librsvg2-bin (>= 2.14.4-3), imagemagick”); print $0 > “unison-2.27.57/debian/control”}’ unison-2.27.57/debian/control
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot