x11docker/kaptain repository overview

⁠kaptain: GUI frontend for shell commands

A fork from http://kaptain.sourceforge.net/⁠. Honours go to author Zsolt Térek.

Dokumentation of kaptain⁠

This little repo:

• stores a copy of the source code
• provides some binary packages for installation
• provides instructions for compilation
• provides a Dockerfile for kaptain in a docker image

⁠Packages

Currently, this repository provides 64-bit packages only.

⁠Debian

⁠jessie, stretch, buster

kaptain is available in the repositories for Debian jessie: https://packages.debian.org/jessie/kaptain⁠. The provided package can be installed on Debian stretch and buster, too. This package provided here is a copy from Debian jessie repository:

• Download package kaptain for Debian jessie/stretch/buster⁠.

⁠bullseye/testing

kaptain depends on Qt4 that is no longer available in Debian bullseye/testing. Instead, I provide a custom build with some statically linked Qt4 libs generated with Dockerfile.staticqt4_debian⁠:

• Download package kaptain for Debian bullseye/testing⁠.

⁠Ubuntu, Mint and other forks of Ubuntu

kaptain is available in repositories of Ubuntu 14.04: http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/kaptain⁠. The provided packages can be installed on Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04, too. The package provided here is a copy from Ubuntu repository. Most likely, the Ubuntu package of kaptain will work on other Ubuntu-based distributions like Linux Mint, too.

• Download package kaptain for Ubuntu⁠.
• If you get an error about missing Qt dependencies, try the statical build for Debian bullseye/testing⁠. Please report back if that causes issues.

⁠fedora

This repository provides an rpm package for fedora. Compiled and packaged on fedora 25 with rpmbuild specification kaptain-0.73.spec⁠. Tested on fedora 28.

• Download package kaptain for fedora⁠.

⁠CentOS, RHEL

This repository provides an rpm package for CentOS. Compiled and packaged on CentOS 7 with rpmbuild specification kaptain-0.73.spec⁠.

• Download package kaptain for CentOS⁠.

As directly related, the rpm package provided for CentOS will most probably work on RHEL, too. Though, this is not tested yet.

⁠openSUSE

This repository provides an rpm package for openSUSE. Compiled and packaged on openSUSE 42.3 LEAP with rpmbuild specification kaptain-0.73.spec⁠.

• Download package kaptain for openSUSE⁠.

⁠Dockerfile and docker image

The provided Dockerfile for kaptain⁠ is used for an automated built of x11docker/kaptain⁠ on docker hub. Example use: x11docker --hostdisplay --gpu --share YOURKAPTNFILE -- x11docker/kaptain YOURKAPTNFILE

⁠Compiling from source

• Download source code of kaptain⁠.

⁠Arch Linux, Manjaro

pacman -S qt4 bison flex
qmake-qt4 kaptain.pro
make
make install
mv /usr/local/bin/kaptain /usr/bin
mv /usr/local/share/doc/kaptain /usr/share/doc
mv /usr/local/share/kaptain /usr/share/kaptain
mv /usr/local/share/man/man1/kaptain.1 /usr/share/man/man1

⁠debian

apt-get install libqt4-dev bison flex
export QT_SELECT=qt4
qmake kaptain.pro
make
make install
mv /usr/local/bin/kaptain /usr/bin
mv /usr/local/share/doc/kaptain /usr/share/doc
mv /usr/local/share/kaptain /usr/share/kaptain
mv /usr/local/share/man/man1/kaptain.1 /usr/share/man/man1

⁠Ubuntu

apt-get install libqt4-dev g++ bison flex
export QT_SELECT=qt4
qmake kaptain.pro
make
make install
mv /usr/local/bin/kaptain /usr/bin
mv /usr/local/share/doc/kaptain /usr/share/doc
mv /usr/local/share/kaptain /usr/share/kaptain
mv /usr/local/share/man/man1/kaptain.1 /usr/share/man/man1

⁠fedora

dnf install qt-devel bison flex
qmake-qt4 kaptain.pro
make
make install
mv /usr/local/bin/kaptain /usr/bin
mv /usr/local/share/doc/kaptain /usr/share/doc
mv /usr/local/share/kaptain /usr/share/kaptain
mv /usr/local/share/man/man1/kaptain.1 /usr/share/man/man1

⁠CentOS

yum install qt-devel bison flex
qmake-qt4 kaptain.pro
make
make install
mv /usr/local/bin/kaptain /usr/bin
mv /usr/local/share/doc/kaptain /usr/share/doc
mv /usr/local/share/kaptain /usr/share/kaptain
mv /usr/local/share/man/man1/kaptain.1 /usr/share/man/man1

⁠openSUSE

zypper install libqt4-devel bison flex
export QT_SELECT=qt4
qmake kaptain.pro
make
make install
mv /usr/local/bin/kaptain /usr/bin
mv /usr/local/share/doc/kaptain /usr/share/doc
mv /usr/local/share/kaptain /usr/share/kaptain
mv /usr/local/share/man/man1/kaptain.1 /usr/share/man/man1

⁠removing self-compiled kaptain

rm /usr/bin/kaptain
rm -R /usr/share/doc/kaptain
rm -R /usr/share/kaptain
rm /usr/share/man/man1/kaptain.1

⁠Porting to QT5

Unfortunately, kaptain is no longer maintained. As it is based on QT4 and not ported to QT5, it already disappears from official repositories. It is a quite useful tool and I am not aware of another one that is able to provide its features. Personally, I am using it as a graphical frontend for x11docker⁠ and some microscopy tools⁠.

Is anyone out there who would like to port kaptain to QT5? :-)