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#301 Post by OscarTalks »

I have assembled the Debian Wheezy version of the latest Skype 4.1.0.20 with all dependencies in a self-contained package for Wheezy Puppy. The Microsoft sign-in doesn't work and I have a couple of other questions. Please feel free to test and report. No warranty.

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http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 3&start=22

Skype 4.1.0.20 Wheezy .sfs
download = http://www1.datafilehost.com/d/96082ca0
md5sum = c1b39bb58f55be4adb83a0cdc555d768

Skype 4.1.0.20 Wheezy .pet
download = http://www1.datafilehost.com/d/283187bb
md5sum = 7cb28b711b5136448551f6854ee7536a
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#303 Post by OscarTalks »

Thanks Pemasu. Do you by any chance know if that skype.conf file is doing anything in /etc/dbus-1/system.d ?
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#304 Post by pemasu »

Dpup Wheezy 3.5.2.6 has been uploaded. It has been created by using stable Debian 7.0 Wheezy packages and latest woof2 at the time.

Kernel is the still the same 3.5.2. I havent noticed any demanding reasons to update the kernel yet. Kernel is non-PAE.

I have updated the Puppy apps since last build.
Rox right clicks have been updated.
Firefox comes with preinstalled Flashblock, Adblock, FireFtp and Simple Mail. You activate them or not at the first launch. They are still as activatable extensions inside Firefox.
Geeqie has been coupled with Mtpaint, Fotoxx and PupSnap for instant Imgur upload. Just right click the pic and choose Edit. You will find those couplings.
Libgtk-3.0 support, gtk-3.0 theme support.
Abiword 2.92 is one libgtk-3.0 dependent app. From the repo you will find more.
If you want bittorrent app, just download wheezy transmission, gtk or qt version, or transmission pet from puppy common repo.

There was quite a lot work because of several woof2 induced changes. Font xft.dpi change to 96 was not the least.

Nothing fancy. Just a little more than basic Puppy based on Debian Wheezy packages.

Flashplayer is not included. It seems that some of the comps need the old 10 version when the others like to have newer one. There is GetFlash in the Menu. Use it for downloading libflashplayer.

Libgl1-mesa-dri is the package for graphics spesific dri drivers. I intended to include them....but woof2 template stripped them to swrast_dri.so only. I might create it as pet and include them if you like to have dri drivers preincluded with 22 Mb extra fat.

There probably are still quirks here and bugs there. Now I would need testing, using, abandoning....hopefully not many..... and bug reports and feedback.

Download link: http://www.smokey01.com/pemasu/DpupWhee ... heezy3526/

Kernel source sfs: http://smokey01.com/pemasu/Kernel_sourc ... .2-wheezy/

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#305 Post by artsown »

3526 exits from x during startup requiring me to type xwin to get a gui. 3525
never did that. They seem happy enough with the ATI Radeon video
hardware otherwise.

Looks like you did start including your wireless power management bug
workaround.

I kinda like the FF simple email feature. Thanks for waking me up to it :)

I was wondering why FF 20 starts up so slowly until it occurred to me to turn
off adblock. Makes quite a difference.

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#306 Post by pemasu »

This version has the latest woof2 provided xorgwizard, xorgwizard-cli, rc.sysinit, quicksetup changes...which has not been tested in build before.

The latest versions should provide more failsafe features. You can read from Barry`s blog more....

http://bkhome.org/blog2/?viewDetailed=00226

I noticed some small bugs immediately. Woof Rox-filer pet comes after rightclick-wheezy pet, which had my changes to the mime associations. So Rox-Filer did override my changes when 3builddistro installs the processed package folders. And...firefox is not coupled to the pdf opening.

You need to do this in console to have pdf`s open:
echo -e '#! /bin/sh\nexec firefox "$1"' > /root/Choices/MIME-types/application_pdf

About Simple Mail. I am not sure if the Simple Mail liked that I preinstalled it using the id code repackaging by the technique Iguleder showed us couple of years ago. Lets see. For me it seems to forget the account information. But it could be that I disabled it and the information was lost after enabling it. More feedback is needed. I have about 1 gigabyte stuff in my mail account. I did move the firefox folder to the hdd and symlinked it back before testing Simple Mail. It would have eaten my savefile immediately.
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#307 Post by Billtoo »

Running from live dvd with savefile.
Everything worked on first boot, sound,correct screen resolution,set
up wireless network with the network wizard.
I installed some applications in ppm, the only problem so far is the
Chromium browser won't run as root, I haven't tried Google Chrome yet.

This Wheezy 3.5.2.6 is working great so far.
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#308 Post by pemasu »

Thanks Billtoo. I added the wheezy chromium run as root hack so that petget provides needed changes to the installed package. I will reupload the 5.3.2.6 version with these initial fixes.

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#309 Post by pemasu »

Starting the reupload now.....

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#310 Post by pemasu »

And reupload has finished. Chromium now works from wheezy repo. You need to install the dependencies also.
Pdf documents now open to the Firefox inbuild pdf reader. In good and bad. I dont have much experience yet from it. And...it seems my Firefox repackaging failed. I dropped the firefox.png to the wrong folder. It should have gone to the /usr/share/pixmaps....and it went to the /usr/share/icons. You guess the rest. Well...I let people figure out how to fix the missing menu icon.....

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#311 Post by James C »

Frugal install on the trusty old Athlon XP box.Everything working on initial boot but was necessary to add nouveau.noaccel=1 to the kernel line to fix the missing and/or faint icon problem.

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Dpup Wheezy, version 3.5.2.6

Chip description:
VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev c1)

Requested by /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Resolution (widthxheight, in pixels): 1440x900
Depth (bits, or planes): 24
Modules requested to be loaded: dbe

Probing Xorg startup log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log):
Driver loaded (and currently in use): nouveau
Loaded modules: dbe dri dri2 exa extmod fb fbdevhw glx kbd mouse record shadowfb

Actual rendering on monitor:
Resolution: 1440x900 pixels (380x238 millimeters)
Depth: 24 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
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Got to be quick,,,,,my modem/router is failing and is disconnecting without warning. replacement should be here Tuesday.

EDIT.... fixed typo.
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#312 Post by James C »

pemasu wrote: Well...I let people figure out how to fix the missing menu icon.....
That was hard. :lol:
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#314 Post by Ray MK »

JFYI - latest wheezy looks and feels good. All seems to work as expected and is extremely fast. Even now - is a very usable puppy.
Will post a report shortly.
Many thanks for this - very best regards - Ray
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#315 Post by pemasu »

I told that I wont create own repo for wheezy pets. Well....I was wrong. I noticed that Smplayer-0.8.5 fixes the subtitles downloading, which is handy. And I wanted to check how does compiling goes using wheezy qt devel packages. It went well. Though there were 5 bins in /usr/bin which needed renaming. Debian renames bins there with-qt4 suffix....like qmake-qt4....and the source code does not understand that. Renaming or symling those 5 bins fixed the problem. qmake-qt4 and lrelease-qt4 are the important ones. Rename or symlink them qmake and lrelease.

So...If I compile something...I want to share it. I removed about 40 Mb stuff from smokey01.com and there is now equivalent room for other apps. This keeps my conscience in peace.

I compile apps when I notice that there is need.

Link to the repo: http://www.smokey01.com/pemasu/pet_packages-wheezy/

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#316 Post by Iguleder »

pemasu, fonts in Wheezy look a 'lil bit different.

I got them to look like Xfce's default, by deleting /etc/fonts/local.conf and using this ~/.Xdefaults:

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Xft.antialias: true
Xft.rgba: rgb
Xft.hinting: true
Xft.hintstyle: hintslight
I removed the DPI line, because auto-detection works fine - I see no reason to force it.

Also, adding 70-no-bitmaps.conf to /etc/fonts/conf.d seems to solve font issues with Mozilla applications.
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#317 Post by pemasu »

Iguleder. Thanks for you input and thanks for testing and visiting here. I always feel grateful for your work and input.

I tested your changes. I believe you meant .Xresources not .Xdefaults ?
.Xresources is the place whery woof2 ( Barry K ) creates the forcing dpi value.

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DPILINE="$(grep '^Xft\.dpi:' rootfs-complete/root/.Xresources)"
DPIVALUE=$(echo -n "$DPILINE" | tr '\t' ' ' | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 2 -d ' ')
#if [ $DPIVALUE -lt 96 ];then
 echo
 echo "rootfs-complete/root/.Xresources has this line:"
 echo "$DPILINE"
 echo "which sets the displayed size of fonts on the screen (but not bitmap fonts)."
Mozilla ie Firefox seems much better. Otherwise I have noticed that what is good font outlook for one....can be not so good for other. I am not the best to evaluate with my presbyopia. I need big and fat font so that my eyes wont tire.

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#318 Post by Iguleder »

Here's a sample, it's a 64-bit Wheezy-based distro.

It doesn't matter which file you use (.Xdefaults or .Xresources), as long as you don't have conflicting settings.
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#319 Post by artsown »

Pemasu, concerning my report that I have to type xwin during startup .... I
didn't realize that it was actually requiring xorgwizard and my selection of
video driver. That info was not on the screen. Once I set it up for my ATI
driver and selected screen resolution, everything was ok. The initial
startup screen needs a bit of clarification work. The odd thing is that it
seemed to be selecting the ATI driver without my intervention so it didn't
occur to me to run xorgwizard at first.

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#320 Post by pemasu »

Artsown. You could report or give url link to your post to the Barry`s blog. I am sure he is interested how it goes with different graphics and what suggestions people have.

For me it goes straight to desktop with intel graphics.

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