[FOR TESTING] Gcompris 8.4.6 SFS for 4.x series Beta

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#76 Post by ecomoney »

Ttuxxx wrote:Ok after about 20 mins playing with it I managed to crash it
You seem to have singlehandedly achieved in 20 minutes what a week of a preschool of 30 two-year-olds could not! :o

Seriously though, thanks for your time, skills and help Ttuxxxx. Feedback and testing is always appreciated. Which game was it so we can replicate it? :D

Ive updated the link. The "official" version for testing purposes is now at http://ljfr.perso.neuf.fr/. Let me know if you need a mirror...servage have just increased my download bandwidth to 7500gb from 5000gb per month so hopefully no more blackouts for a while. I can make private ftp accounts for people for my webspace too if they would like one (sidders).
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updated test version

#77 Post by ljfr »

Hi,

OBSOLETE:
I uploaded a updated version for tests,
http://ljfr.perso.neuf.fr/gcompris280408/

which includes:
- missing dependencies, namely esound 0.2.41 and pysqlite 2.4.0
- updated and split cound / locales sfs partly from the 8.4.12 release.
there is one .sfs (and the equivalent .pet file) including all languages sounds, and one .pet per language in case you only want few of them.
-the main sfs : gcompris-8.4.6-i486-1cf_420.sfs includes english text and sounds.
... and some cosmetic (mutli-lingual .desktop files, ...).

If you use version 4.1.2, the dependency check also asked for the lib Tcl/Tk (requested by _tkinter), I don't know if they are truly needed, you can find them in the Ibiblio ftp.

I still have a minor issue with sounds: when installed on 4.1.2 or with a .pet, with the background music activated, I cannot hear "bleep" sound when I click / choose a game in the main board -with no warning/error on console. But everything works with a sfs in the 4.2, ... weird. So worst case: you may have to desactivated background music. almost no test on the administration board yet.

They are few known bug (melody memory activity), crash cases ... see
gcompris releases notes of latest versions. You could also browse forums / docs to find interesting features : how to change background music, add words in some activities ...

to slim down the sfs, I started a doc sfs, with all games doc and python pygtk demo and some extra modules - to be improved.
I let the dev files in.

regards,
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#78 Post by magerlab »

i have no sound with your first sfs ( also did not have with the puppyrus pet.
hope it will work with the new one
anyway my daughter likes to play

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#79 Post by sidders »

You can remove\hide apps that crash or are too much for the little ones in Gcompris admin console.
gcompris -a

Go to Profiles and add a profile. Within that profile add the 'All users' group. Then make the profile default.

Go to Boards and expand the categories and individual boards and deselect the ones that may cause problems or that you think are too much for your particular age group.

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Gcompris sfs for test

#80 Post by Peter444 »

Hi ljfr, thought i would try this sfs but i received the following message

You don't have permission to access /gcompris280408/ on this server

Regards

Peter444

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#81 Post by ecomoney »

I get the same peter, I will PM ljfr and make him aware.
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Latest gcompris sfs

#82 Post by ljfr »

hi sorry for the delay, I set up a new download place:
http://ljfr2.perso.neuf.fr/GcomprisSFS/

with 2 folders:
-one "split" folder with 4 SFS (gcompris 1cf, doc, locales, all sounds) and in the Sound directory a pet for each language if necessary.
-one "allinone" SFS, a merge of the 4 previous SFS.

If someone could host those files, it would be helpfull, since I don't know how long this new ftp will survive.

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gcompris sfs 8.4.6 beta

#83 Post by Peter444 »

Apologies for the delay in giving you some feedback

Downloaded ok, i normaly use puppy as a multisession live cd and these seen to have difficulty in using sfs files

So I loaded turbopup alpa3 onto a usb stick using ubutwin, then loaded your gcompris sfs

I have tried most games at level one and what ever the highest level is, they are not the same for all games

Only issue to date is Tux paint open and closes saying cannot find something?

Might be a screen resolution issue i will try a few options and report back later, (qualify)i only loaded the small version no sound and english only this might have some effect

Normal issue with the big red cursor, need to open the sponge game first to get it to change from small black to large red

Thank you for the time and effort you have put into this project

I will load it into upup476.iso when i can get it loaded onto a usb stick

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gcompris sfs 8.4.6 beta for test

#84 Post by Peter444 »

ljfr , I have revisited your beta sfs, the message that comes up when you try to open Tuxpaint is

cannot find tux paint
install it to use this activity

As I downloaded the small 68m sfs i assume that Tuxpaint was not in the package, is this correct?

Regards

Peeter

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Tuxpaint not included in this gcompris SFS

#85 Post by ljfr »

Hi Peter,
You are right, tuxpaint is not included in this sfs, You have to download and install it separately. pet packages to be found on this forum.

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#86 Post by sidders »


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Tuxpaint not included in this gcompris SFS

#87 Post by Peter444 »

ljfr and sidders, thanks for your help

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Gcompris 8.4.12

#88 Post by ljfr »

Hi,

To be tested, I compiled gcompris 8.4.12 on puppy 431 with dependencies,I split packages between main/doc/dev/NLS, and uploaded everything in that folder:
http://ljfr2.perso.neuf.fr/pet_packages-4/general/
It may end in a smaller package.

To avoid many dependencies, I disabled few plugins in gstreamer, and gnet in gcompris ... so read the README file:
http://ljfr2.perso.neuf.fr/pet_packages ... ral/README
to get some details, It seems gstreamer is just needed for sounds -so no need for libvisual, libtheora, ...

It also works on my PC on puppy 412 with few package update- see README.

NB:In the same folder, you will find pygame, childsplay, pysycache -menu is broken, type pysycache in console ...-, updated tuxpaint and tuxpaintstamps...

regards,

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#89 Post by technosaurus »

The svn trunk had SDL for a sound option before .13 was released - did anyone test that method yet? SDL is much more useful for games than gstreamer anyways.
Check out my [url=https://github.com/technosaurus]github repositories[/url]. I may eventually get around to updating my [url=http://bashismal.blogspot.com]blogspot[/url].

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sdl mixer

#90 Post by ljfr »

You're right the configuration option --enable-sdlmixer reappeared with the version 8.4.13, I am doing some tests, if it works, will update with a 8.4.13 sdl version.

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gcompris 8.4.13

#91 Post by ljfr »

Hi,
First, thanks to technosaurus, the version 8.4.13 works great on my pc, with sdl mixer on puppy 412, I don't even have to update alsa-lib to get sounds,

Gcompris 8.4.13, and dependencies:
gnucap + gnuchess + python + pysqlite + pycairo + pygobject +pygtk + SDL + SDL mixer +tuxpaint
to be found here:
http://ljfr2.perso.neuf.fr/pet_packages-4/general/
It's really nice since SDL is already required by tuxpaint anyway.

regards,

NB: I disabled gnet, and on puppy 412, still have to update:
-glib to version 2.18.3 (mainly to get libgio)
-sqlite to version 3.6.12
which you can get here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... ackages-4/

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#92 Post by Jim1911 »

ljfr,

Works great on 3.1.1, perfect for my grandchildren.

Thanks,
Jim

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#93 Post by cloud2006 »

Hello,
I am quite new to puppy linux and i would like to add gcompris to my puppy linux setup.

I would like to add the site described in this topic to the list of repository:
http://ljfr2.perso.neuf.fr/pet_packages-4/general/

I could not find the Packages-db-file to add to the PET_REPOS variable in /root/.packages/DISTRO_PET_REPOS, i.e.:

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PET_REPOS='[long line with official repositories] http://ljfr2.perso.neuf.fr|http://ljfr2.perso.neuf.fr/pet_packages-4/general/|What-Packages-db-file-do-i-type-here'
Am i mistaken to consider ljfr2.perso.neuf.fr a pet repository?
If so, could someone indicate me the procedure to install gcompris on a vanilla 4.3.1 puppy (on internal hard disk)?

Thanks in advance

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this is not a repository

#94 Post by ljfr »

Hi Cloud2006,

This is not a package repository, this is just me compiling some packages and putting them on a personal page, there is no Packages-db-file (but I may check how this work).

To get Gcompris, you need to download and install:
gcompris-8.4.13-i486.pet
gcompris_NLS-8.4.13-i486.pet (optional, localization for other languages)
gnucap-0.35-i486.pet
gnuchess-5.07-i486.pet
libpaper-1.1.23+nmu1-i486.pet
pycairo-1.6.4-i486.pet
pygobject-2.20.0-i486.pet
pygtk-2.12.0-i486.pet
pysqlite-2.5.5-i486.pet
Python-2.5.4-i486.pet
SDL-1.2.13-i486.pet
SDL_image-1.2.7-i486.pet
SDL_mixer-1.2.8-i486.pet
SDL_Pango-0.1.2-i486.pet
SDL_ttf-2.0.9-i486.pet
tuxpaint-0.9.21-i486.pet
tuxpaint-stamps-2009.06.28-i486.pet (optional)

You could get them from my page, http://ljfr2.perso.neuf.fr/pet_packages-4/general
...or compile them from source, I set my configuration options
inside a readme file if necessary,

regards,

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#95 Post by cloud2006 »

Thanks for the fast answer ljfr,

It worked fine :) ... i am just a bit too used to software repositories to get things done manually, my bad.

This is what I find about those Packages-db-files, and here is a link to an official one.

Thanks again.

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