TED for Joplin (to replace Evernote/Tusk)

Question

The intent here is to use Joplin as a note taking app to replace Evernote/Tusk . However Joplin's editor is oriented for coders, whereas my needs are for a good RTF text editor. A blog recommended TED.

Using Ubuntu Mate 20.04, with Joplin 1.7.11 ; I've downloaded TED ted-2.23-amd64.deb but the Deb Pkg Installer complains about a dependency not being satisfied for libtiff4. The lintian output is: W: ted: hardening-no-pie usr/bin/Ted Lintian finished with exit status 0

Synpatic Pks Mngr reports the pkg to be broken, and won't let me remove it or re-install it.

Appauls suggested to try: sudo dpkg --configure -a and sudo apt-get install -f

. . . but to no avail. Then from the CLI and then Synaptics I tried to install libtiff4, removing it and re-installing but nothing works.

Any help appreciated, any other rtf editor suggestion also appreciated, and compatibility with Joplin more than appreciated.

Thx

xian

PS: please create a tag for Joplin

Answer 1

You still can get libtiff4 installed by manual download:

cd ~/Downloads
wget -c http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/glibc/multiarch-support_2.27-3ubuntu1.4_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install ./multiarch-support_2.27-3ubuntu1.4_amd64.deb

wget -c http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/t/tiff3/libtiff4_3.9.7-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install ./libtiff4_3.9.7-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb

Also you need libpng12. For Ubuntu MATE 20.04 LTS it is installable from special PPA by commands below:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linuxuprising/libpng12
sudo apt update
sudo apt install libpng12-0

And then finally install the TED editor:

cd ~/Downloads
wget http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/editors/ted/ted-2.23-amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install ./ted-2.23-amd64.deb

and then execute it by Ted or launch from Applications → Office → Ted rtf text processor.

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Also please note that RTF is not version-control systems friendly.
So Markdown is better for this purpose. Apps to test may include VNote, Notable, BoostNote and DeepTags. For random notes without folder-file structure one can use ReText.