Quirky April 7.0 - 7.0.3, 7.0.4, 7.0.4.1

[L18L]

Serbian does not work in 64 bit. EDIT upgraded

( We had tested before in Precise only )

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zcat srp.gz

EDIT
Does work in installation.
Toggle between de and srp:
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# setxkbmap de
# setxkbmap -option grp:alt_shift_toggle de,srp
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[Jasper]

Hi BarryK,

Background:

Quirky unicorn 6.2.1 runs here from an 8 GB flash stick (with an estimated 15 MB/sec read and 6 MB/sec write booting via “plop

[Billtoo]

Test driving radky's FbBox-2.0 in Quirky April64-7.0

[gcmartin]

Erase and created an 8GB USB using recommended path from your Install webpage.

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xz ...| dd of=...

All seems well. I tested by booting, Firstrun with hostname change, running this system as wired ethernet only.

Next, Plugged in 2nd USB stick that was preformatted as an April and clicked "mount icon" after the desktop was updated with 2nd USB as /dev/sdc1 &2. The mount GUI appears after the loading message.

I did not/Have not hit the USB issue on my 32bit laptop.

I will try the 64bit desktops and report back to this posts.

Edit: Update...My USB problem appears to be related to what happens when you have 2 USBs that have the same PARTUUID. Reason this was NOT noticed before is that in April, the "blkid" does not show this info. It was discovered when plugging the USBs into FATDOG and looking at the output of its "blkid" command which shows the problem.

Hope this is helpful

[bobtron]

Greetings from Illinois land! I just upgraded QA to 7.0.1 looking good so far..no bugs to report.
I've noticed some guys posting screen shots have Conky running..can you provide a link or know where i can get a .PET package to install?
tnx in advance!

[BarryK]

For the 64-bit Quirky, I have created an Adobe Flash Player PET:

http://bkhome.org/news/?viewDetailed=00176

[don570]

I can start accepting user-contributed PETs.

One thing though, the pet.specs file must specify any dependencies that have been compiled for it, and they of course need to be provided as PETs.

I think that you mentioned needing python 2.7?
That is a bit awkward, maybe name the PET as "python7-<version>.pet", to distinguish it from the one already in April.

if the python7 PET can install without conflicting with the existing python, that would be good.

Gimp doesn't need python to run. In fact I don't even think that the
gmic plugins need python. That is why I kept the packages separate.

I found that the native mypaint format (ORA) needs a full version of python.
A version of python that can execute a few commands doesn't work

The gmic plugins DO need my version of fftw (fast fourier transform)
otherwise the gmic plugins won't load when gimp is launched.

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[bobtron]

I just installed flash player PET..clicked menu/Internet/get flash player and got error msg "unable to connect to server.."
bu ti am still connected to this forum..hmmm? should i un-install and re-try?

[bigpup]

OK, here is the fixed getflash.

Download, gunzip it, change file attributes to executable, and place at /usr/sbin

Works for me.

The player is downloaded from Adobe site, and registers with the PPM -- I had to fix that too.

Does this fix also need to be posted in the Getflash topic of the forum?
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=74491

[James C]

OK, here is the fixed getflash.

Download, gunzip it, change file attributes to executable, and place at /usr/sbin

Works for me.

Works for me too.

[James C]

I just installed flash player PET..clicked menu/Internet/get flash player and got error msg "unable to connect to server.."
bu ti am still connected to this forum..hmmm? should i un-install and re-try?

The Flash player pet just installs the latest 11.2.202.442 version of flash....it doesn't affect the "getflash" script.

Download the getflash.gz file from the above post http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 149#832149 and follow the directions.

Just did that here and getflash is working correctly.

[James C]

Greetings from Illinois land! I just upgraded QA to 7.0.1 looking good so far..no bugs to report.
I've noticed some guys posting screen shots have Conky running..can you provide a link or know where i can get a .PET package to install?
tnx in advance!

I cheated and use a Fatdog64 Conky from here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 583#800583

[ETP]

More Testing - Quirky April 7.0.1 final

Since my initial report at the top of page 9, it has proven to be rock solid and the quickest Pup to date. It is a great 64 bit base and a remaster was too much of a temptation.
The progress to date is shown below. The image in tar.gz form is copied to an empty 10G f2fs partition (sda8 in the shots) and is simply extracted in situ.
Boot is from a 4 Meg hybrid ISO that contains the kernel. The ISO can be written to any old USB stick/SD card > 4Meg or CDR if preferred.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/ ... slide=id.p

Thanks Barry for a great release.

[Billtoo]

I tried 01micko's get_libreoffice-0.29.pet and it downloaded and
created LibreOffice-4.4.1_64_en-US_xz.sfs, is there a sfs2pet utility
for April64?

EDIT: I installed shinobar's sfs load 2.3 and had it load the
libreoffice sfs, it showed nothing loaded so I uninstalled the sfs load
pet, but LO is in the menu and works.

Guess it's loaded forever.

[BarryK]

I can start accepting user-contributed PETs.

One thing though, the pet.specs file must specify any dependencies that have been compiled for it, and they of course need to be provided as PETs.

I think that you mentioned needing python 2.7?
That is a bit awkward, maybe name the PET as "python7-<version>.pet", to distinguish it from the one already in April.

if the python7 PET can install without conflicting with the existing python, that would be good.

Ha ha, it shows how much python is "off my radar", but I have just realised that the python compiled in T2 and used in Quirky, is version 2.7.6 ...and there I was, thinking it was still 2.6.

[BarryK]

I just installed flash player PET..clicked menu/Internet/get flash player and got error msg "unable to connect to server.."
bu ti am still connected to this forum..hmmm? should i un-install and re-try?

Er, the Flash Player PET that I have provided is the Adobe Flash Player.

After installing that, you don't have to run getflash.
Just restart your browser.

[BarryK]

OK, here is the fixed getflash.

Download, gunzip it, change file attributes to executable, and place at /usr/sbin

Works for me.

The player is downloaded from Adobe site, and registers with the PPM -- I had to fix that too.

Does this fix also need to be posted in the Getflash topic of the forum?
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=74491

Yes, thanks for letting me know about that thread, I have posted there:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 326#832326

[Puppus Dogfellow]

something wrong with the devx downloads from both nluug and ibiblio--one download crept to as high as 900 megs--could that have something to do with your odd vodafone bills, Barry? the devx's have been a problematic download lately for some reason.


the rest mirrored.

[BarryK]

Pdict, in the Document menu, is an online dictionary, but it is broken.

This is due to a change in requirement of the version of 'dict' used in Quirky.

Create a file /etc/dict.conf, and just put one line in it:

server dict.org

This fix will be in SP2 (Quirky 7.0.2).

Note also, gfnrename (Filesystem menu) has been internationalised by robwoj44, that will be in SP2.

[BarryK]

something wrong with the devx downloads from both nluug and ibiblio--one download crept to as high as 900 megs--could that have something to do with your odd vodafone bills, Barry? the devx's have been a problematic download lately for some reason.

If you are using SeaMonkey, that is the cause.

SM from 2.30 onwards is very buggy.

Going from 2.32 to 2.32.1 did fix one bug that I knew of, can't recall what it was.
But, there are still more.

Use wget.