Librepup 6.0.2.2

[musher0]

Yeah, let's all sing a "Requies-cat in pace" for icecat... (I wish Flash didn't
hide the tongue-in-cheek icon so well.)

[Iguleder]

The only issue with it, apart from that it's an old version (1.6.0, they are up to 1.8.3 which I compiled and works in slacko, so should here) is tha you get the SSL certificate errors. i suppose a new package should be made for SSL certificates and made available for all puppies.

I'll add the certificates in the next version, thanks. Seems they're part of the tahrpup hacks thing. Try to install the ca-certificates package of Trisquel - should work just fine.

Also Osmo is broken - misses libical.so.0 and libicalss.so.0. Installing libical1 from PPM works but the *.so.0 symlinks are missing. Maybe the true fix is to recompile osmo on librepup (will of course still need libical1).

Yes, even libical is part of the hacks tarball. I built a small Osmo without any weird dependencies:
osmo-0.2.14.pet
osmo_NLS-0.2.14.pet

Maybe a librepup repo is needed

http://librepup.info/pet_packages-librepup

musher0's ATI problem might be the kernel config. I noticed this:

The tahrpup kernel configuration is horrible. It decompresses Squashfs in one thread only, uses voluntary preemption, does not support hyperthreading ... I created a new configuration file in woof-CE with ATI support enabled and other changes. It should result in much better performance and responsiveness for everyone.

[darry1966]

Yeah, let's all sing a "Requies-cat in pace" for icecat... (I wish Flash didn't
hide the tongue-in-cheek icon so well.)

Hi all,

I looked into this Icecat slowness thing and decided to look at the plugins supplied. I disabled and removed what I could including the frankly awful librejs and added noscript and adblocking from the free as freedom Icecat plugins and well what do you know a much faster Icecat.

[01micko]

Also Osmo is broken - misses libical.so.0 and libicalss.so.0. Installing libical1 from PPM works but the *.so.0 symlinks are missing. Maybe the true fix is to recompile osmo on librepup (will of course still need libical1).

Yes, even libical is part of the hacks tarball. I built a small Osmo without any weird dependencies:
osmo-0.2.14.pet
osmo_NLS-0.2.14.pet

Hmm.. but how useful would osmo be without libical? I import school holiday calendars, state and national holidays and such in ical format.

I'll try your new pet but there was something that turned me off the newer release; forget what.

[Iguleder]

Hmm.. but how useful would osmo be without libical?

Good question. Osmo had other dependencies too (libgringotts, libnotify ...) - if you think the libical dependency is useful, I'll rebuild the package to re-add it.

[Iguleder]

Please don't forget to type

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cd /usr/share/X11;ln -s $PWD/rgb.txt /root/.rgb.txt

https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/woof-CE/commit/97238b63dfa755176a1d3608fd8a4d4cc3df85d2

[musher0]

Many thanks, Iguleder.

[pemasu]

Couldnt get my salary pdf to open. Real bad thing.

3builddistro used to have this ( about 2 years ago )

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v#120522 precise puppy, seamonkey was crashing. needed /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/apps.gecko-mediaplayer.preferences,
# but also needs this compile operation...
# ***NOTICE*** cross-build, this will have to be executed at first boot...
if [ "$WOOF_HOSTARCH" = "$WOOF_TARGETARCH" ];then
 if [ -d rootfs-complete/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas ];then
  [ -e rootfs-complete/usr/bin/glib-compile-schemas ] && chroot rootfs-complete /usr/bin/glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas
 fi
 #120523 seems need this too...
 if [ -d rootfs-complete/usr/lib/gio/modules ];then
  [ -e rootfs-complete/usr/bin/gio-querymodules ] && chroot rootfs-complete /usr/bin/gio-querymodules /usr/lib/gio/modules
 fi
fi

so...compiling schemas during woofing means that the distro need to have glib-compile-schemas to be found.
# ls /usr/lib/glib-2.0
gio-querymodules glib-compile-resources glib-compile-schemas

so....symlinks to the executable path are missing.

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ln -s /usr/lib/glib-2.0/* /usr/bin
glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/

and....I got evince showing my salary pdf. Great !

Having those symlinks in place inside woof and 3builddistro should compile schemas without need to do it manually, if things havent changed much.

[Iguleder]

Thanks, pemasu. I'll add this to the glib package template. I think it's a bug in Trisquel, because the Ubuntu package has these files under /usr/bin.

[musher0]

Hmm.. but how useful would osmo be without libical?

Good question. Osmo had other dependencies too (libgringotts, libnotify ...) - if you think the libical dependency is useful, I'll rebuild the package to re-add it.

About PIMs...

Or this librepup breaks pattern and uses something other than osmo.
-- Perish the thought!

Integrating qOrganizer should be easy, since Qt is already on board.

Or we go extra light, with a handful of notecase and gnumeric templates
and corresponding menu entries. I had found/created some for the
lightweight Puppy| Toutou business suite for Francophones, and they could
be updated. (Most were in English anyway.) Let's free up some Mg's!

Or there's an older PIM that's exportable/syncable. [Edit: I remember
now, the name of that app is jpilot]; it syncs with a palmpilot. A visitor
to the forum had requested it, and another member and myself had
compiled it and produced pets. (Now where's that in my mess...)
[Edit: Zapped now irrelevant end of paragraph. musher0]

The BORG Calendar is absolutely great but its java JRE dependency is
too heavy for a pup.

BFN.

musher0

[musher0]

Hello all.

As an extension to the above:

Aren't we forgetting to create a database category in the menu and
include a simple database utility? Puppy always has had notecase and
gnumeric, but they were never advertised as DB's.

I think there's a need for a substantial but simple DB amongst our forum
members, but we never really addressed it. (I remember some members
on the French side of the forum being on my heels and back about it a
couple of years ago...)

Perhaps offer csvpad? Or even the csvfix toolbox (here and here)?

Just a thought.

musher0

Edit: Was portabase ever included in an official Puppy release?

[Iguleder]

Here's a rebuilt kernel, with some additional drivers and several changes that should improve performance:
http://www.librepup.info/huge_kernels/huge-3.14.53-librepup-i686-1.tar.bz2

[Billtoo]

I got smplayer and smtube running under wine-1.17.51

[mavrothal]

Here's a rebuilt kernel, with some additional drivers and several changes that should improve performance:
http://www.librepup.info/huge_kernels/huge-3.14.53-librepup-i686-1.tar.bz2

Works fine but vmlinuz misses the DISTRO_IDSTRING and might generate issues finding the puppy files in some settings

[Iguleder]

Fixed another bug -samba-tng-rcrsn-0.5-rc1.pet has a faulty pinstall.sh that doesn't do anything and prevents the pinstall.sh of other packages from running during 3builddistro.

[rcrsn51]

Samba-TNG is obsolete. You should be installing a Samba4 Basic package from here.

[musher0]

Here's a rebuilt kernel, with some additional drivers and several changes that should improve performance:
http://www.librepup.info/huge_kernels/huge-3.14.53-librepup-i686-1.tar.bz2

Works fine but vmlinuz misses the DISTRO_IDSTRING and might generate issues finding the puppy files in some settings

Hi Iguleder.

It's appreciated, but can you explain to us simple mortals how to
upgrade/integrate this new kernel into the existing LibrePup?

Thanks in advance.

musher0

[musher0]

I got smplayer and smtube running under wine-1.17.51

Hi, Billtoo.

It's good to know, I suppose... I'm not sure I understand the reason of
this wine test, though, at this early stage in the development of LibrePup.
Are you telling us indirectly that the Linux versions of smplayer and
smtube do not work at the moment on Librepup?

As for me, I've installed and started testing pekwm-1.17 from the trisquel
repo, and it seems to react funny. I can't put my finger on it yet, but it's
not behaving exactly like the pekwm I'm used to. Would the trisquel
people have changed the default config files? I've got to investigate this
further.

BFN.

musher0

[Billtoo]

I got smplayer and smtube running under wine-1.17.51

Hi, Billtoo.

It's good to know, I suppose... I'm not sure I understand the reason of
this wine test, though, at this early stage in the development of LibrePup.
Are you telling us indirectly that the Linux versions of smplayer and
smtube do not work at the moment on Librepup?

Hi musher0, mplayer 1.1.1 would compile in Librepup but gave an error about a missing libEGL when I tried to run it so I compiled wine 1.17.51 to see if smplayer/smtube would work under wine and they did, vlc as well.
Besides, it was something to do

[koz]

My 2 cents:I wouldn't recommend Icecat - it's got some security vulnerabilities that have yet to be addressed for quite some time. I would recommend Iceweasel (I use the one provided by Parabola rather than Debian, with Trisquel extension repo) if you need all-singing, all-dancing browsing action.