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Puppyt · Posted: Tue 05 Mar 2013, 22:10 Post subject:

Hi Q5sys - just tried it now, copying the FD (v. 64-610 beta) pdf-writer across. It worked - but perhaps I should have just purged the previous jobs as a first step much earlier, as status was always "Paused" for some reason I never worked out. When I deleted them, the new job registered fine and now the CUPS-PDF remains on "Idle" between jobs. Initially I received a "pdf-writer failed" error message in the printer job queue page, which I hadn't seen previously. I went ahead with a 4-to-a-page pdf anyway from Evince and it printed fine. Did a quick, doomed-to-fail attempt at compiling PDFshuffler 0.6 (with devx.sfs loaded at boot) and while it says that all dependencies are met, the python extras (pyPDF-1.13 and pypoppler-0.12.1) still need trackiing down.

tazoc

Release notes for Lighthouse 64 6.00 A

http://www.lhpup.org/release-lhp.htm

I'm running a few final tests, but unless I find a show stopper, the ISOs will be available very soon. Cool

Please note that Fatdog 64 display drivers will not work with this release, as the Xorg is from Slackware64 14.0. The Fatdog repo is available in PPM, but is disabled by default. The other repos, Slackware, Salix and Slacky offer many compatible packages.

One shortcoming with the PPM: (Puppy Package Manager) even though it has been updated from Woof--it is not fully aware of packages present in an SFS add on. For example, if you select a KDE package in PPM, it will prompt for Qt4 and many KDE core pkgs--even if the KDE4 SFS is currently installed. The 'Check dependencies of Installed Pets' feature should account for files in an SFS but sometimes fails to locate a few libraries when they are not located in the usual directories. I think this is because some apps place them within their own sub-directories instead of, say /usr/lib64/. So often the app will work fine even if PPM reports missing dependencies.

I've focused on core updates and bug fixes for this release, though there are several new or updated apps available.

The following applications have not been updated for this release but I will try to work on these as time allows:

Samba Pidgin Transmission Amarok Compiz

Regards,
TaZoC

Q5sys · Joined: 11 Dec 2008 Posts: 845

Pete22 · Joined: 08 May 2009 Posts: 212 Location: Utah, USA

Soo exciting.

So want the single click for the desktop on XFCE.

When I get LHP x64 6.00a I want to start off right by doing backups of my savefile.
I thought about using Snap2 rotating backups.

Will that work on lHP x64? Or is that type of function already in LHP?

Or any other good suggestions on doing this?

I so hate getting caught with a dead savefile and no backup

Pete

Q5sys · Joined: 11 Dec 2008 Posts: 845

tazoc · Posted: Sun 31 Mar 2013, 16:55 Post subject: Lighthouse 64 601 Beta released

New thread for LH64 601 Beta:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=695767#695767

The 600 interim build had too many bugs, so I replaced it with 601, a newer kernel and updated the release notes. The base ISO does not include a Flashplayer plugin, but it is available via Lighthouse Update Pet, or SFS. I plan to make the latest JavaRE and Flash available for LH64 515 as well.

I tried to update to KDE 4.9.3.sfs but it was sluggish and Qt-4.8 didn't work properly with ROX-Filer, so I updated the earlier KDE 4.6.5-F to G which includes Qt-4.7.

Thank you for your patience and support,
TaZoC