My report on Quirky 5.99

[don570]

I was able to get viewnior to work by looking at
terminal complaints. Two libraries were missing.

libxcb-xlib.so.0
libpcre.so.0

I went to internet to track down these RPMs and installed
and to my surprise I could get Viewnior to work.


RPMs can't be attached so I put fake gz extension on the end.
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[gcmartin]

There is probably a reason why no one has done this before, but, I will ask.

Puppy has a mechanism for pushing updates to the base system out to the community. If this system works, why has few (and I mean a very very few) ever use this approach for system's update?
Why was some other method devise about a year ago for updating a base system?

Help if you can why it appears that "auto system update" announcement and operation(s) is avoided by everyone (excepting one or 2 developers who have ever used this)..

Thanks in advance for any understanding

[BarryK]

gcmartin,
It is one of the goals for Quirky6, easy upgrade, and downgrade. That won't be in the 6.0 release though.

don570,
All of those problems (Viewnior, etc.) have been fixed in 6.0.

nooby,
Quirky6 is not really designed for frugal install. But, install to a hard drive partition, a conventional full installation, is easily doable.

...I just have to write a script for it. The script currently available, 'write-quirky-image-to-drive', writes to the entire drive, with syslinux boot manager. To install to a partition in a hard drive is easy, I just need to write the script -- will do that soon.

By the way, 6.0 will be uploaded in less than 24 hours from now.

[slavvo67]

When trying to use FFConvert, I received a "Somewhat fault with the ffmpeg... Ensure the ffmpeg is properly installed" error.

The Ogle DVD Player didn't work from menu. - Not sure about terminal.

I'm sure you're way ahead of me on this but I thought it might be good to throw it out there... just in case.

I'm not a huge fan of Opera but it works well, here.

Barry, welcome back!! Overall, I really like this Quirky.

Best,

Slavvo67

[BarryK]

Quirky 6.0 is released, see announcement:

http://bkhome.org/news/?viewDetailed=00024

There is another Forum thread for 6.0 here:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=90784

[mikeslr]

Hi all,

Those who have posted on the quirky 5.99 and 6.0-.01 threads probably know already, but for anyone new, shinobar's sfs_load-on-the-fly, http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=64354 seemed to work fine --enabling tempoary loading of SFSes-- in 6.0, and may work in 5.99. As I chose not to Save at shut down, it had to be re-installed at each bootup. I haven't played with 6.01 yet.

mikesLr