graphical interface for prebuilt Linux packages

[insanitywholesale]

We use swi-prolog in university and while the windows version comes with a graphical interface, the packages in the debian and ubuntu repositories as well as the ones in the PPA don't provide a graphical interface. I couldn't find swipl-win anywhere and had to build it from source. It would be nice if a package could be added. Thank you and have a good day.

[JanWielemaker]

Did you install the package swi-prolog-x? That still only provides swipl, but does support all graphical tools to be started from the Prolog command line. The sources do contain the Qt based swipl-win that is indeed not part of the normal packages, mostly as it doesn't add much on Linux. If, after trying, you think differently we could consider adding a package with the Qt interface.

[insanitywholesale]

I meant the Qt interface when saying graphical interface. I have seen the swi-prolog-x package but that's not what I need. I would be grateful if you could package the Qt interface since compiling from source isn't ideal for everyone. Thank you for the timely answer

[JanWielemaker]

I'll consider this. No guarantees though and it surely won't be soon. In the meanwhile, you can easily create a monolithic .dep or .rpm using the instructions in CMAKE.md.

[JanWielemaker]

The snap package provides a version with the graphical interface. snap install swi-prolog.