Are tar.xz and txz the same?

[Van_Vinkle]

I'd like to have a sight over balsa (e-mail client) package. It is not on gslapt's repositories nor in sbopkg ones.
I pick it from its developer page (https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/) which is in the balsa-xxxx.tar.xz format.

I thought that .tar.xz and .txz where the same format. I changed .tar.xz termination to txz, but it seems that I was wrong.

Launching from console #installpkg balsa-2.6.4.txz does not run.

Therefore my question: are tar.xz and txz the same?

[gapan]

All right. Good question. It deserves a new FAQ page:

https://docs.salixos.org/faq/install-txz-found-online/

[laprjns]

Here's a package for Salix 15 that I built from a Slackbuild scrip for current that I got from https://slackware.pkgs.org/current/slac ... f.txz.html.

Balsa 2.6.4 - https://people.salixos.org/laprjns/balsa/

I think it works, but I couldn't set up my email account.

[Van_Vinkle]

All right. Good question. It deserves a new FAQ page:

https://docs.salixos.org/faq/install-txz-found-online/

Well, this blog entry left me disoriented.
Then main reason for to use Slackware, (well, Salix because I am a little lazy ) after some years using a Debian's derivative is, in theory, the ease of compiling programs. In these years I've compiled four o five programs with success.
I am aware of issues with dependencies. This problem can be solved reading carefully the developer's instructions and doing previous installation of them.
As far as it concerns balsa email-client, I've found compiled .rpm packages. Can I use it (previously passed into rpm2tgz)?

[gapan]

Well, this blog entry left me disoriented.

Why?

Then main reason for to use Slackware, (well, Salix because I am a little lazy ) after some years using a Debian's derivative is, in theory, the ease of compiling programs. In these years I've compiled four o five programs with success.

Sure. But that's not what you were asking about. You may find a .txz file that is indeed a package and you may try to install it. It will get installed and the software might work, or not. But you may also find a .txz file that is not a package, but merely a source tarball. Of course you can uncompress it, compile the software and install the software after you do that, you may even create a package from it. But you can't install the source tarball directly.

I am aware of issues with dependencies. This problem can be solved reading carefully the developer's instructions and doing previous installation of them.
As far as it concerns balsa email-client, I've found compiled .rpm packages. Can I use it (previously passed into rpm2tgz)?

You may, but it is highly unlikely to work.

Look at the post from laprjns above to find an actual package that you can install.

[Van_Vinkle]

First, a big thanks to laprjns for his interest. I have not tried to install his balsa package because I suspect that it may break my system. The set of current's dependencies is, I think, very different from Slackware/Salix 15.

I did an investigation over others balsa packages like .rpm and .deb (it is easy to find them), but I threw in the towel, because the list of dependencies is enormous and almost none is in our repositories, probably due to balsa is a Gnome package and Slackware and Gnome are not good friends.

I installed a balsa.deb package in another old laptop, and I liked its look and its ease to configure.

I've abandoned my intention of getting balsa-mail client in my main computer. Bad luk.

[gapan]

You misunderstood laprjns's post. The Slackbuild was for current, the package he built with it is for 15.0. In fact I just tried it and it works. The complete list of dependencies is:

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aaa_libraries
aspell
at-spi2-atk
at-spi2-core
atk
brotli
bzip2
cairo
cyrus-sasl
db48
dbus
e2fsprogs
elfutils
elogind
enchant
eudev
expat
fontconfig
freetype
fribidi
gcc
gcc-g++
gcr
gdk-pixbuf2
glib2
gmime
gmp
gnutls
gpgme
graphite2
gspell
gst-plugins-base
gstreamer
gtk+3
harfbuzz
hyphen
icu4c
keyutils
krb5
lcms2
libICE
libSM
libX11
libXau
libXcomposite
libXcursor
libXdamage
libXdmcp
libXext
libXfixes
libXi
libXinerama
libXrandr
libXrender
libXt
libassuan
libcap
libdrm
libepoxy
libevdev
libffi
libgcrypt
libglvnd
libgpg-error
libgudev
libical
libidn2
libjpeg-turbo
libmanette
libnotify
libnsl
libpng
libpsl
libseccomp
libsecret
libsoup
libtasn1
libtirpc
libunistring
libunwind
libwebp
libwpe
libxcb
libxkbcommon
libxml2
libxslt
mesa
nettle
openjpeg
openssl
orc
p11-kit
pango
pcre
pixman
sqlite
util-linux
wayland
webkit2gtk
woff2
wpebackend-fdo
xz
zlib
zstd

Everything is in the repos and you already have most of them installed anyway. In my laptop I only needed to install gspell.

[Van_Vinkle]

You were right. Installing previously gspell and then laprjns' balsa package, all was OK.
Now I'm comparing it with claws for decide which e-mail client I shall use.
Thank you very much to you and laprjns.