Quirky April 7.0 - 7.0.3, 7.0.4, 7.0.4.1
I downloaded Libre 64 bit via http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... fd1#700801 and linked into my April Frugal boot i.e. unsquashfs the libre sfs file in the directory where I store vmlinuz (frugal boot) and then
cd /
cp -rs /mnt/sda3/quirky7/squashfs-root/* .
to sym link the entire content of libre (which still left 770MB free space on my 1.5GB system (excluding heaps of free space also in devtmpfs)).
But when I start Libre up it flashes the splash screen but then crashes/stops. Looks like you might need both Java and dbus/glibs libs to have been installed.
It was the LibreOffice 4.3.4 x86_64 (SFS) version that I downloaded that's suggested as being OK for slacko64 and FatDog64 - but maybe there's conflicts there with April
i.e. not looking for a quick fix ... rather just messing around and highlighting that something maybe amiss that might need to be included on Barry's watch/to-do list
On a separate note I did have a look at why screen resolution changes might not be working ... but my knowledge/skill is insufficient to identify where the problem might be. I did drop Wary 5.5 sfs in as a alternative q.sfs ... and that hit similar problems so my guess its nothing inside the sfs itself but something to do with the rest (vmlinuz/initrd (basic set excluding sfs). My guess is that the problem might be down to incorrect nv modules/drivers or layering of such .... but that's a noobs total wild guess.
cd /
cp -rs /mnt/sda3/quirky7/squashfs-root/* .
to sym link the entire content of libre (which still left 770MB free space on my 1.5GB system (excluding heaps of free space also in devtmpfs)).
But when I start Libre up it flashes the splash screen but then crashes/stops. Looks like you might need both Java and dbus/glibs libs to have been installed.
It was the LibreOffice 4.3.4 x86_64 (SFS) version that I downloaded that's suggested as being OK for slacko64 and FatDog64 - but maybe there's conflicts there with April
i.e. not looking for a quick fix ... rather just messing around and highlighting that something maybe amiss that might need to be included on Barry's watch/to-do list
On a separate note I did have a look at why screen resolution changes might not be working ... but my knowledge/skill is insufficient to identify where the problem might be. I did drop Wary 5.5 sfs in as a alternative q.sfs ... and that hit similar problems so my guess its nothing inside the sfs itself but something to do with the rest (vmlinuz/initrd (basic set excluding sfs). My guess is that the problem might be down to incorrect nv modules/drivers or layering of such .... but that's a noobs total wild guess.
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OK, think I have got it.That's because there is no matching console keymap.
So, it would seem that we have to find a "srp.gz" console keymap.
/lib/keymaps has console keymaps that I originally obtained from Tiny Core Linux. Those guys extracted them from the 'kbd' package and converted them to kmap format.
I found the latest 'kmaps.tcz' from here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux ... /kmaps.tcz
Actaully, it is an SFS file, so just rename it to 'kmaps.sfs', then click to open it.
The kmaps are at /usr/share/kmap
I found 'sr-cy.kmap', and have renamed it to 'srp' and gzipped it.
Download the attached, place in /lib/keymaps, then delete this file:
/var/local/quickset-keyboard-list
Then run quicksetup:
# quicksetup
...choose "srp"
...anyone who knows Serbian, let me know if this works!
If so, 'srp.gz' will go into /lib/keymaps permanently.
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You need Libreoffice compiled for April.rufwoof wrote:But when I start Libre up it flashes the splash screen but then crashes/stops. Looks like you might need both Java and dbus/glibs libs to have been installed.
The PPM has a PET, in "pet-april" repo.
Or direct download (124.5MB):
http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/quirky ... pril64.pet
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The mksquashfs with no compression (-noX -noI -noD -noF switches) is really quick in April. After making some cosmetic changes and opting to save the frugal boot (create new q.sfs file) I just about caught it when creating the attached screen capture before it completed (I set a 5 second delay before screen capture so I could pull up the main menu to also be included in the shot). And that's on a single core (old AMD64) !!!
It (the remaster/save script I posted earlier) doesn't currently however preserve sound nor internet connection settings across reboots - so something that I've missed out in the script (that I currently don't know how to fix).
It (the remaster/save script I posted earlier) doesn't currently however preserve sound nor internet connection settings across reboots - so something that I've missed out in the script (that I currently don't know how to fix).
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Serbian
... I know the cyrillic lettersBarryK wrote:...
Download the attached, place in /lib/keymaps, then delete this file:
/var/local/quickset-keyboard-list
Then run quicksetup:
# quicksetup
...choose "srp"
...anyone who knows Serbian, let me know if this works!
If so, 'srp.gz' will go into /lib/keymaps permanently.
and I have been trying it in Puppy Precise 5.7.1 which is the distro our Serbian Puppy Translators Team member Griot is using.
Success !
Thank you very much
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THANKS Barry.BarryK wrote:You need Libreoffice compiled for April.rufwoof wrote:But when I start Libre up it flashes the splash screen but then crashes/stops. Looks like you might need both Java and dbus/glibs libs to have been installed.
The PPM has a PET, in "pet-april" repo.
Or direct download (124.5MB):
http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/quirky ... pril64.pet
Downloaded the PET, renamed it to a .tar.gz suffice and extracted it to where vmlinuz is stored, cd / and cp -rs <path to where extracted> to sym link 'sfs load' and Libre starts up/works great. Still leaves 785MB of free space in my frugal (and massive amounts of /devtmpfs free space also).
Thanks again.
Not sure how stable that April compiled Libre is. Had a couple of times that its crashed on me whilst running quick tests. I tend to use scalc to both draw and scribble (see attached) as well as the more conventional spreadsheet stuff and have many inter-twinned spreadsheets.
It may be down to how I've 'loaded' libre using sym links into a frugal April. Or it might be the extensions I've dropped in (such as for portrait and landscape page switching). But just a observation being noted just in case others might also see problems.
Seems to crash with a relatively small and empty alert box that flashes up for a second before libre crashes both from the desktop and tray (quicklaunch disappears).
It may be down to how I've 'loaded' libre using sym links into a frugal April. Or it might be the extensions I've dropped in (such as for portrait and landscape page switching). But just a observation being noted just in case others might also see problems.
Seems to crash with a relatively small and empty alert box that flashes up for a second before libre crashes both from the desktop and tray (quicklaunch disappears).
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I can confirm that this solution works just fine!BarryK wrote:Download the attached, place in /lib/keymaps, then delete this file:
/var/local/quickset-keyboard-list
Then run quicksetup:
# quicksetup
...choose "srp"
...anyone who knows Serbian, let me know if this works!
If so, 'srp.gz' will go into /lib/keymaps permanently.
For a quick setup one can open Menu > Setup > Mouse/Keyboard wizard > Advanced Xorg... > Layout Variants then choose second option 'latin' (srp:Latin), click YES for immediate change and use following terminal commands for switching between Cyrillic/Latin letters.
(For those running Precise 5.71)
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setxkbmap srp
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setxkbmap srp latin
My appreciation for solving this problem goes to L18L & Mr. BarryK.
Cheers!
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Re: Serbian
A couple of scripts needed fixing too. /usr/sbin/input-wizard, keymap-set, quicksetup. I think that I also made a small change in /etc/rc.d/rc.country.L18L wrote:... I know the cyrillic lettersBarryK wrote:...
Download the attached, place in /lib/keymaps, then delete this file:
/var/local/quickset-keyboard-list
Then run quicksetup:
# quicksetup
...choose "srp"
...anyone who knows Serbian, let me know if this works!
If so, 'srp.gz' will go into /lib/keymaps permanently.
and I have been trying it in Puppy Precise 5.7.1 which is the distro our Serbian Puppy Translators Team member Griot is using.
Success !
Thank you very much
This will be in SP1.
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/var is sharing the tmpfs created on /tmp. This is a technical decision, avoiding too many tmpfs's.linuxcbon wrote:April64 7.0
- why is /var/ a link to /tmp/var/ and root contains .var/
Why not have a separate normal /var/
- /root/.icewm/ is not needed
Only /var/local is preserved between reboots, which is why it is saved in /root
/root/.icewm will be needed if the icewm package is installed.
Also, you commented awhile back, /dev/shm not used. But it is, applications use it.
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Great!Griot wrote:I can confirm that this solution works just fine!BarryK wrote:Download the attached, place in /lib/keymaps, then delete this file:
/var/local/quickset-keyboard-list
Then run quicksetup:
# quicksetup
...choose "srp"
...anyone who knows Serbian, let me know if this works!
If so, 'srp.gz' will go into /lib/keymaps permanently.
For a quick setup one can open Menu > Setup > Mouse/Keyboard wizard > Advanced Xorg... > Layout Variants then choose second option 'latin' (srp:Latin), click YES for immediate change and use following terminal commands for switching between Cyrillic/Latin letters.
(For those running Precise 5.71)
invokes Serbian Cyrillic lettersCode: Select all
setxkbmap srp
invokes Serbian Latin (qwertz)Code: Select all
setxkbmap srp latin
My appreciation for solving this problem goes to L18L & Mr. BarryK.
Cheers!
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April64 7.0
- After installing devx
- After installing devx
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ldconfig
ldconfig: /usr/lib/libisl.so.10.2.2-gdb.py is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start.
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Re: Serbian keyboard
Barry, you know best which scripts to change. Thank you.BarryK wrote:A couple of scripts needed fixing too. /usr/sbin/input-wizard, keymap-set, quicksetup. I think that I also made a small change in /etc/rc.d/rc.country.L18L wrote:... I know the cyrillic lettersBarryK wrote:...
Download the attached, place in /lib/keymaps, then delete this file:
/var/local/quickset-keyboard-list
Then run quicksetup:
# quicksetup
...choose "srp"
...anyone who knows Serbian, let me know if this works!
If so, 'srp.gz' will go into /lib/keymaps permanently.
and I have been trying it in Puppy Precise 5.7.1 which is the distro our Serbian Puppy Translators Team member Griot is using.
Success !
Thank you very much
This will be in SP1.
All that previous issue was about keyboard.
Another thing is locale.
Hope the following code quoted from
http://puppy-translators-team.40341.n7. ... 8.html#a92
will explain it:
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Startet my Precise 5.7.1 pfix=ram and tried to make locale sr_SR@latin.
Does not work as you reported.
Looked into /usr/sbin/quicksetup and found the culprit around line 1139 :
LANGCHOICE="`echo -n "$COMBO_LOCALE" | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | cut -f 1 -d '@'`" #nl_BE@euro, need to chop.
nl_BE is Bert's locale
Nobody needs @euro if using utf8.
But that code has chopped each @ that is @latin has been chopped !
Change it to look like:
#LANGCHOICE="`echo -n "$COMBO_LOCALE" | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | cut -f 1 -d '@'`" #nl_BE@euro, need to chop.
LANGCHOICE="`echo -n ${COMBO_LOCALE//@euro/} | cut -f 1 -d ' '`" #all @euro chopped. #150227
.... and locale sr_SR@latin can be activated.
echo ${COMBO_LOCALE}| sed s/@euro//
Testing these things for Serbian locale (they appear to need 2 languagesn) is another thing.
Keyboard problem is SOLVED.
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I was puzzled at first, tested Pidgin, then realised, the icon is missing from the tray.linuxcbon wrote:April64 7.0
- pidgin desktop icon is missing
- /sbin/init.d/ is needed ?
OK, I will see if I can find it.
/sbin/init.d/fuse is something I have on hold for now. It is in the 'fuse' package compiled in T2, but it is supposed to be at /etc/init.d/.
But, I don't know if I want to put it there. Don't think I ever had to run a start script before, to use fuse.
There needs to be testing of a fuse filesystem, to see whether this start/stop script is needed.
ntfs-3g is a fuse filesystem, but it is a special case, has it's own fuse driver builtin, so it seems doesn't use the kernel 'fuse' module.
So, I will leave the fuse start/stop script where it is for now, not doing anything.
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Took me about four hours!BarryK wrote:I was puzzled at first, tested Pidgin, then realised, the icon is missing from the tray.linuxcbon wrote:April64 7.0
- pidgin desktop icon is missing
- /sbin/init.d/ is needed ?
OK, I will see if I can find it.
Eventually figured out how to get the pidgin icon appearing in the tray.
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All of the device nodes in /dev are created automatically by the Linux kernel.linuxcbon wrote:April64 7.0
- in /dev/ many files have the wrong group. For example /dev/tty* should be in group tty. Same thing for /etc/cups/ /var/spool/ /usr/bin/ etc
What is also strange is /etc/group has twice tty and tty has same number 2 as bin...
All of this group stuff only matters for running non-root.
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