Comments on: Qalculate! – An Open-Source Multi-Purpose Calculator

By: Sébastien Lavoie

Sébastien Lavoie — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 23:47:26 +0000

Thank you for this recommendation! It works like a charm and has all the features I was looking for. Thumbs up!

By: Dennis J

Dennis J — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 00:40:55 +0000

Just so you know, the .deb packages are for older versions. For example, the Bionic version is 0.9.9-1 whereas the Snap version is 2.6.1 and it’s a whole different beast. As for the Qalculate! program itself, I installed it today (both ways, that’s how I knew something was wrong) and Mr. Okoi is correct, this thing rocks. Even if I powder my slide rules for speed, they cannot readily do what this does quite easily.

I’m not a fan of Snaps or Flatpaks either, but they are here to stay, and in this case where you do not need to be out of “the sandbox” much, it is sort of OK.

Thank you sir for letting us know about Qalculate!

By: Jan Kardell

Jan Kardell — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 09:52:23 +0000

There are deb and rpm packages around, see https://pkgs.org/download/qalculate. I use openSUSE, where the lib is in the main repo, and the GUI in the KDE3 add on repo.

By: jawnhenry

jawnhenry — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 14:11:35 +0000

I–and I’m sure most all others would also–totally agree with the first commenter: if I can’t install this by typing ‘sudo apt-get install qalculate’, I’m not going to use it. Period.

I’m tired of Linux being made ‘cute’, or “…easier to use…” via added complexity. Does the term ‘systemd’ ring a bell?

By: TheOuterLinux

TheOuterLinux — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 01:37:55 +0000

Looks cool. Just one problem…snap package? I’m under the conclusion that this is what happens when a Windows developer tries to do something nice for Linux so he/she doesn’t feel as bad about dual booting, Virtual Box, or WSL, but takes the easy way and so we get a snap package instead. Snaps are just one step away from having a store like Windows or Apple. Dear double-agents, learn to make or deb or rpm or don’t bother. Open source something all you like, but if I can’t compile a package from what history says will be an abandoned project (snap) in five years, how does this help anyone if only for archival purposes? But, Ubuntu is likely to be bought or heavily influenced (stock) by Microsoft when Canonical IPOs when they’re satisfied with GNOME from all of that tax-free bonus money the new head of GitHub, a former founder of GNOME, recieved. Oh excuse me, I meant to say “anonymous” $1M donation. -_- And of course, Microsoft is going to keep snaps around because it’s familiar to them. It’ll help when they DaaS Ubuntu too.