My report on Quirky 6.0

[BarryK]

@roadkill13 For the record can you describe in detail how you managed to get Google Chrome running in Tahr?

Have you tried Chromium?

It is in the Ubuntu repository. I just noticed it there, using the Quirky Package Manager, haven't tried it though.

I tried Chromium... it said:

Chromium can not be run as root.
Please start Chromium as a normal user. To run as root, you must specify an alternate --user-data-dir for storage of profile information.

I do not understand what to do. But I like to play and may solve.

Also after PPM install, it said 'gstreamer' was needed.
But I have service_pack-6.0.3_TO_6.0.4-tahr.pet installed, which was to add gstreamer.

EDIT:
Well I tried and it did not work:

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# chromium-browser
/usr/bin/chromium-browser: line 99: lsb_release: command not found
/usr/bin/chromium-browser: line 100: lsb_release: command not found
[15304:15304:0213/171529:ERROR:chrome_browser_main_extra_parts_gtk.cc(50)] Startup refusing to run as root.

# chromium-browser --user-data-dir=/file/personal
/usr/bin/chromium-browser: line 99: lsb_release: command not found
/usr/bin/chromium-browser: line 100: lsb_release: command not found
[14854:14879:0213/171454:ERROR:nss_util.cc(445)] Error initializing NSS with a persistent database (sql:/root/.pki/nssdb): libmozsqlite3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[14854:14879:0213/171454:ERROR:nss_util.cc(211)] Error initializing NSS without a persistent database: NSS error code: -5925
[14854:14879:0213/171454:FATAL:nss_util.cc(213)] nss_error=-5925, os_error=0
Aborted

Oh my... what to do?

Bill

OK, fixed, see blog post:
http://bkhome.org/news/?viewDetailed=00063

There was rather a lot to do, to get it all right, but the next release of Quirky Tahr (6.0.5), which should be out very soon, will (hopefully) have it all sorted out.

[broomdodger]

All known Puppies SeaMonkey 'Open Containing Folder' does not work.

SeaMonkey > Download Manager > File > Open Containing Folder

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 772#575772

PostPosted: Sun 23 Oct 2011, 16:05
Open geany (or your preferred text editor) and create a file called rox1 with the following:

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#!/bin/sh
exec rox -U "$@"

Save the file in /usr/local/bin

Make it executable

In seamonky:
Edit > Preferences > Browser > Helper Applications:
add rox1 under the "Content Type > file" entry.

I followed the instructions but saved the file to /root/my-applications/rox1 and now 'Open Containing Folder' now works.

Another option was proposed, I have not tried it.
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 702#705702

Which is better / desirable?

Bill

[don570]

Quirky Tahr works with Gimp-painter

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=91074

____________________________________________________

However I couldn't get the Wacom tablet driver to compile
in Quirky Tahr. It would complain in terminal that XORG wasn't
installed and that dependencies of XORG needed to be installed.

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[broomdodger]

I made a simple but effective reminder app.

Quirky Tahr 6.0.4
PPM install leave_1.12-2.1 from Ubuntu

man leave
http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/leave/

Quirky T2
I copied the leave binary from the Quirky Tahr to
/root/my-applications/bin/leave,
make it executable.

I did this because leave is only part of the Ubuntu packages.

And... this also works.

Use a text editor like geany,
copy the following into a file named 'WalkOn',
save it to 'my-applications',
and make it executable.
/root/my-applications/WalkOn

Bill

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#!/bin/sh
# Walk ON the hour

# grrr 00-09 is octal, convert to base 10
#hour=$((10#`date +"%H"`))
# --or--
hour=`date +"%-I"` # - no padding, I 01..12, H 00..23

for i in 4 3 2 1 ; do
t=$(( ( hour + i ) * 100 ))
(( t >= 2400 )) && (( t = t - 2400 ))

exec urxvt -g 47x5-0+$((13*i)) +sb \
  -bg black -fg cyan \
  -w 0 -b 1 -bd green \
  -title "Take a Walk" \
  -e bash -c "leave ${t} && bash" &

sleep 0.1
done

[broomdodger]

Quirky Tahr 6.0.3 upgraded to 6.0.4
SeaMonkey 2.23

Previously I wrote how I enabled an external mail handler in SeaMonkey so I could use sylpheed to handle mailto links.
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 596#757596

It worked in Quirky Tahr 6.0.4 that had been updated incrementally from Quirky Tahr 6.0.1, AND where I also copied the folder /root/.mozilla to the new system.

This time I did a clean install of Quirky Tahr 6.0.3 updated using:
service_pack-6.0.3_TO_6.0.4-tahr.pet
I did NOT copy the /root/.mozilla folder to it.

I went thru the same procedure to create the mailto handler. Clicking a mailto link would error saying something like 'no mailto handler found'.

Next I copied in the old /root/.mozilla, now the mailto handler works.

I have not isolated what is different.

Has anyone tried to setup an external mail handler in Quirky Tahr?

Bill

[L18L]

...
compiled in puppy precise 78k
compiled in quirky tar 55k, tested in quirky and precise

first compilation 11.5 sec
next compilations 1.9 sec That's fun. Thank you Barry

Yes, and strip it, it goes down to about 38K.

I am a slow learner and I just want to let you know that recent executable stripped is down to 17 k now.

[BarryK]

All known Puppies SeaMonkey 'Open Containing Folder' does not work.

SeaMonkey > Download Manager > File > Open Containing Folder

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 772#575772

PostPosted: Sun 23 Oct 2011, 16:05
Open geany (or your preferred text editor) and create a file called rox1 with the following:

Code: Select all

#!/bin/sh
exec rox -U "$@"

Save the file in /usr/local/bin

Make it executable

In seamonky:
Edit > Preferences > Browser > Helper Applications:
add rox1 under the "Content Type > file" entry.

I followed the instructions but saved the file to /root/my-applications/rox1 and now 'Open Containing Folder' now works.

Another option was proposed, I have not tried it.
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 702#705702

Which is better / desirable?

Bill

Bill,
My SeaMonkey doesn't have a "file" under "Content type". It has various others: "ASX file", "BZ2 file", "GZ file", etc.

[BarryK]

I made a simple but effective reminder app.

Quirky Tahr 6.0.4
PPM install leave_1.12-2.1 from Ubuntu

man leave
http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/leave/

Quirky T2
I copied the leave binary from the Quirky Tahr to
/root/my-applications/bin/leave,
make it executable.

I did this because leave is only part of the Ubuntu packages.

And... this also works.

Use a text editor like geany,
copy the following into a file named 'WalkOn',
save it to 'my-applications',
and make it executable.
/root/my-applications/WalkOn

Bill

Code: Select all

#!/bin/sh
# Walk ON the hour

# grrr 00-09 is octal, convert to base 10
#hour=$((10#`date +"%H"`))
# --or--
hour=`date +"%-I"` # - no padding, I 01..12, H 00..23

for i in 4 3 2 1 ; do
t=$(( ( hour + i ) * 100 ))
(( t >= 2400 )) && (( t = t - 2400 ))

exec urxvt -g 47x5-0+$((13*i)) +sb \
  -bg black -fg cyan \
  -w 0 -b 1 -bd green \
  -title "Take a Walk" \
  -e bash -c "leave ${t} && bash" &

sleep 0.1
done

The busybox 'printf' applet might do an octal to base 10 conversion. It works like the C printf() function.

[Billtoo]

I used the service packs to update my Quirky Tahr install to 6.0.5,
updated the devx too.
Used PPM to install the Chromium web browser, it's working fine
running as user spot done with QuickSetup first-run settings.

[broomdodger]

Quirky Tahr 6.0.4 upgraded
+ service_pack-6.0.4_TO_6.0.5-tahr.pet
+ devx_service_pack-6.0.4_TO_6.0.5-tahr.pet

Posting with Chromium installed with PPM.
Chromium Version 32.0.1700.107 Built on Ubuntu 14.04, running on Quirky 6.0.5

Seems fast!
+ Plays the youtube I tried.
- Fails to play http://ted.com/talks

Bill

[Sage]

Unable to upgrade (HD) from 604 to 605 - insufficient space. That is ridiculous. Tried to reduced sda2(ext3) by 300Mb , (OK) and add it to sda1(ext4) using GPartEd - refused.
Any ideas on either count?

[BarryK]

Unable to upgrade (HD) from 604 to 605 - insufficient space. That is ridiculous. Tried to reduced sda2(ext3) by 300Mb , (OK) and add it to sda1(ext4) using GPartEd - refused.
Any ideas on either count?

What size partition?

I may have to introduce strict rules in the install scripts, not to allow installation into too-small drives/partitions.

For example, currently allowing 2GB min Flash drive, but that is just not usable.

[BarryK]

Quirky Tahr 6.0.4 upgraded
+ service_pack-6.0.4_TO_6.0.5-tahr.pet
+ devx_service_pack-6.0.4_TO_6.0.5-tahr.pet

Posting with Chromium installed with PPM.
Chromium Version 32.0.1700.107 Built on Ubuntu 14.04, running on Quirky 6.0.5

Seems fast!
+ Plays the youtube I tried.
- Fails to play http://ted.com/talks

Bill

I noticed one thing wrong. When running as root (not spot), the default download directory is supposed to be pre-set in
/file/portable/chromium/profile/Default/Preferences
to download to
/file/downloads

However, when I did a download, it defaulted to /root/Downloads

[BarryK]

Quirky Tahr 6.0.5 is released.

As you can see from the above posts, some of the guys already know about this. That's probably because they are running Quirky Tahr, and as soon as they use the Package Manager, it reports upgrade Service Packs available.

Here is the release announcement:
http://bkhome.org/news/?viewDetailed=00064

[Puppus Dogfellow]

605 mirrored


tahr-6.0.5-8gb.img.xz
tahr-6.0.5.usfs.xz
devx-6.0.5-tahr.pet
install-quirky-to-drive(1).sh
install-quirky-to-partition(1).sh
kernel_src-3.12.6-patched.pet

[Sage]

I may have to introduce strict rules in the install scripts, not to allow installation into too-small drives/partitions.

Thanks for rapid response! The HD seemed to have sda1ext4, sda2ext3, sda3f2s, maybe a swap? Had nothing vital, so have re-installed (partition) using new script.

[Billtoo]

New install of Quirky Tahr 6.0.5 to a 400x 16gb SDHC card.
Installed proprietary nvidia driver.
Took snapshot.
Updated PPM and installed applications from Ubuntu repos + compiled
wine 1.7.12
Took snapshot.
video-info-glx 1.5.3 Sun 16 Feb 2014 on Quirky Tahr 6.0.5 Linux 3.12.6 i686
0.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF110 [GeForce GTX 560 Ti OEM] (rev a1)
oem: NVIDIA
product: GF110 Board - 12630002 Chip Rev
X Server: Xorg Driver: nvidia
X.Org version: 1.15.0
dimensions: 1920x1080 pixels (602x343 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GTX 560 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.3.0 NVIDIA 334.16

It's working great so far.

EDIT:
Added wbar.

[broomdodger]

The busybox 'printf' applet might do an octal to base 10 conversion. It works like the C printf() function.

Barry,
hour=`date +"%I"` # returns "01-12"
hour=`date +"%H"` # returns "00-23"

The problem is 08-09 are invalid octal numbers.

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# printf "%d" 09
bash: printf: 09: invalid octal number

printf works great for valid octal numbers.

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# printf "%d" 077
63

You are correct, an alternate would be better,
because the '-' flag is not an option on the Mac.

Another option is to use these which are 1 char shorter!

%k hour, space padded ( 0..23)
%l hour, space padded ( 1..12)

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#!/bin/sh
# Walk ON the hour

hour=`date +"%l"` # space padded " 1..12"

for i in 4 3 2 1 ; do
t=$(( ( hour + i ) * 100 ))
(( t >= 2400 )) && (( t = t - 2400 ))

exec urxvt -g 47x5-0+$((13*i)) +sb \
  -bg black -fg cyan \
  -w 0 -b 1 -bd green \
  -title "Take a Walk" \
  -e bash -c "leave ${t} && bash" &

sleep 0.1
done

Bill

[Sage]

Q-T 605 new install to partition ext4
There have been problems:
Install crashed at 41%. Hard reset, reinstall. GRUB4Dos crash when trying to edit menu.lst.
G4D reinstalled from Slacko!
No default 'aluminium', set 'colour' instead. PPM FlashPlayer v11 doesn't work with BBC iPlayer/SM - will overwrite with v10 from stock since it is usually more reliable. Yes, success, just as Terryphi advised some while ago.
it's all getting a bit fraught with version numbers, two distinct Q- versions, install scripts and names. Don't envy the developer's housekeeping effort before gold.

[broomdodger]

I noticed one thing wrong. When running as root (not spot), the default download directory is supposed to be pre-set in
/file/portable/chromium/profile/Default/Preferences
to download to
/file/downloads

However, when I did a download, it defaulted to /root/Downloads

I looked at Chromium settings, I thought it was already set to '/file/downloads', but decided to reset it to '/file/downloads' and now Chromium downloads to '/file/downloads'.

I wonder if the preset and bad chars in it.

Barry

Would you check to see that BOTH of these point to "/file/downloads"?

This is how they look AFTER manually [re]setting to "/file/downloads".

"download": {
"default_directory": "/file/downloads",
"directory_upgrade": true,
"extensions_to_open": "",
"prompt_for_download": true
},

"savefile": {
"default_directory": "/file/downloads"
},

Bill