Wary and Racy 5.5, released March 3, 2013

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artsown
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#81 Post by artsown »

Sage, as I said to Linuxcbon, I no longer have a problem after
updating SM.

Art

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#82 Post by linuxcbon »

artsown wrote:Linuxcbon, I have no interest in the outdated SM. It has been
replaced with a up to date SM that works well .. as I have posted.

Art
Can you anyway do the test with old SM from shell ? It's good to know what happens and what it is...

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#83 Post by artsown »

Linuxcbon, no, I have no interest in the outdated SM at all.

Art

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#84 Post by Sage »

linuxbon: I think he's trying to say 'thank you for taking the time' , but maybe he wasn't brought up well with good manners?

Dewbie

#85 Post by Dewbie »

How about building Wary with only a light browser like Dillo, plus Uget for those on dial-up?
Then anyone can get whatever full-featured browser they want.
And BarryK won't have to deal with any SM-related problems.
Aren't they already doing something like that with Lucid?

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#86 Post by linuxcbon »

Dillo is fast but not complete, no javascript and no css float.
Did you try it at http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=52534

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#87 Post by linuxcbon »

Once again, let me explain one prob already explained, I have RTL8111/8168B :
1/ /lib/firmware has 6 files, none seems needed.
2/ r8169 is loaded, but it should be r8168. See www.realtek.com LINUX driver for kernel 3.x and 2.6.x and 2.4.x is r8168-8.035.00.tar.bz2
So for this, r8168 should be compiled and r8169 blacklisted. (Note r8169 works too).

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#88 Post by Tote »

Manual frugal install, celeron M, 250 RAM. Everything working ootb. Installed latest Opera sfs, flash, couple of icon pets, etc. I'm not a heavy user but this is running really well on this old, tired laptop. Many thanks!!

(I forgot :oops: running Wary.)

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skype problem

#89 Post by EgyB »

Can someone help me?

I run racy 5.5 from usb stick.
I install skype 2.1 over install puppy package.

When I log in skype it won't work. Just freeze and keep skype logo (arrow which go in circle) running, but nothing else...

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Re: skype problem

#90 Post by linuxcbon »

EgyB wrote:I install skype 2.1 over install puppy package.
When I log in skype it won't work. Just freeze and keep skype logo (arrow which go in circle) running, but nothing else...
( I guess you installed this : skype_static-2.1.0.81 )
Can you click on "console" icon and type skype ? Tell what error messages are shown ?
(there is an alternative to skype if you have sip, it's linphone http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=79803 )
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thank you

#91 Post by EgyB »

Thank you! I will do that when I get home.

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#92 Post by linuxcbon »

Racy 5.5. Another bug :
Save http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13579707/N9Y4AAAAMAAJ.pdf
Open that pdf file with epdfview from shell.

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 Error (74600): Error in JPX stream
And takes 60% CPU to go to the next page.
See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15629
epdfview is not developped anymore ? http://trac.emma-soft.com/epdfview/ down.
Any better pdf reader ?

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#93 Post by rcrsn51 »

The problem isn't with epdfview - it's with the version of libpoppler that it uses.

I didn't check Racy, but Wary 5.5 uses the very old libpoppler-7 and shows the same symptoms as you reported.

However, Slacko 5.5 uses libpoppler-26 and handles your test PDF fine.

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#94 Post by linuxcbon »

rcrsn51 wrote:The problem isn't with epdfview - it's with the version of libpoppler that it uses.
I didn't check Racy, but Wary 5.5 uses the very old libpoppler-7 and shows the same symptoms as you reported.
However, Slacko 5.5 uses libpoppler-26 and handles your test PDF fine.
So why didnt you report it here ?

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#95 Post by musher0 »

linuxcbon & rcrsn51,

I can confirm that: all the console pdfto* utilities are of no use because the libpoppler.so.19 library is not there.

Working on it now.

musher0

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Ok, here's a freshly compiled drop-in replacement for whatever poppler-ish material exists in wary 5.5 (untried in racy 5.5). This means it should replace all the pdfto*, pdfinfo, etc., utilities and the corresponding libraries. This version, poppler-0.22.2 is dated March 11, 2013 (10 days ago). It contains the executables and the corresponding libraries.

Please download from : http://limelinx.com/c617i Should you wish to preview the contents, a directory and file listing of this *.pet archive is attached below in g'zipped text format.

References : http://poppler.freedesktop.org/ (author's web site); http://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-0.22.2.tar.gz (source code)

Enjoy!

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Dewbie

#96 Post by Dewbie »

linuxcbon wrote:
Dillo is fast but not complete, no javascript and no css float.
Did you try it at http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=52534
Yes, I use it all the time.
Dillo's limitations won't prevent you from visiting either here or here and downloading the full browser of your choice.
(either with Dillo or a download manager such as Uget or Wget)

This also works with Mozilla's official builds.
(Haven't tried any of the others.)

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Re: skype problem

#97 Post by watchdog »

EgyB wrote:Can someone help me?

I run racy 5.5 from usb stick.
I install skype 2.1 over install puppy package.

When I log in skype it won't work. Just freeze and keep skype logo (arrow which go in circle) running, but nothing else...
In wary 5.5 I use successfully skype 2.2.0.35. You can download the tar.bz2 archive from my shared link:

http://www.4shared.com/file/StyW-ofz/sk ... 35tar.html

Click on the archive, select all and extract to /usr/local. Then copy in /usr/bin the binary skype from the directory you extracted. From /usr/bin you can create a link to the desktop or launch "skype" in console. I have to say that I install from puppy3 repository qt 3.3.8 but I don't know if it is necessary.

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#98 Post by rcrsn51 »

musher0 wrote:I can confirm that: all the console pdfto* utilities are of no use because the libpoppler.so.19 library is not there.
I am not seeing a problem with libpoppler in Wary 5.5. All of the pdfto* tools work correctly.

I believe that the only issue here is updating libpoppler to handle linuxcbon's particular PDF file. All you need are:

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libpoppler-glib.so.8  ->   libpoppler-glib.so.8.6.0
libpoppler.so.35 -> libpoppler.so.35.0.0
Then epdfview can be compiled against them to make a version that reads his PDF.

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#99 Post by linuxcbon »

Barry, for privacy, can you do this ?

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rm -r /root/.adobe/
rm -r /root/.macromedia/
ln -s /dev/null /root/.adobe
ln -s /dev/null /root/.macromedia
= avoiding cookies from flashplayer

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#100 Post by musher0 »

rcrsn51 wrote:
musher0 wrote:I can confirm that: all the console pdfto* utilities are of no use because the libpoppler.so.19 library is not there.
I am not seeing a problem with libpoppler in Wary 5.5. All of the pdfto* tools work correctly.

I believe that the only issue here is updating libpoppler to handle linuxcbon's particular PDF file. All you need are:

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libpoppler-glib.so.8  ->   libpoppler-glib.so.8.6.0
libpoppler.so.35 -> libpoppler.so.35.0.0
Then epdfview can be compiled against them to make a version that reads his PDF.
Doesn't load in zathura either, but in foxitreader, it's ok.

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