My report on Quirky 6.0

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Quirky 6.1.3

#381 Post by bobtron »

Greetings again folks..Is there any way I can add to "Shutdown" Manager? or find an application for battery power management of Acer Aspire One laptop.
I would like to add either "Hibernate" or "Suspend" action when I close display / lid.
Q6.1.3 is working fine for my work colleague and myself. I would put to the top of my Grub Menu {default boot} if I could manage the power settings.I have about 15 versions of puppy {from Alpha to Wary} as well as Ubuntu 13.04 and Linux Mint 16 to boot from. But I find Quirky could do my every day chores {browser/you-tube/VLC/e-mail/fotowall} fun stuff or heavy lifting stuff.
Great review from previous link...Flowery words that I agree with..Good Job to all the crew!..TNX!
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Q6.1.3

#382 Post by bobtron »

Puppy 4.3 linux got my feet wet so I am still a Noobie. But ever since Quirky 6.1.x, I am up to my ears with "Windows-wanna-be-Expatriots" work colleagues from every level {WIN3.1/95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP/VISTA/7 and 8} that want to jump ship.
These folks love the Quirky desktop environment..Menu items?..they are a little uncomfortable with some of "funny" names {linux world stuff}..most common complaint is "OMGosh! where did my "C" "D" "E" "F" or "G" GO!? followed by "You Wrecked My Computer!"..that turns into a discussion about hard drives partitions and USB stuff and how to "navigate" to their stuff {"Oh look! it is still here, they just got funny name / labels"}..they need to learn concepts like "Mount / Unmount"...that class lasts two minutes..after five minutes I might as well be talking to my shoe...I don't think they got it or most probably I did not explain it very well.
Can the Linux world {in general} come up with "Ex-Windows-User" to "Welcome-New-Linux User" hand holding tutorial/Wizard/Doc/Man page or mouse "hover over" and "tool tips" or "whats this?" to explain this stuff? {A built-in help guide/ wizard because older machines might not be connected to the Internet}
Any Ideas Lads or Lassies?

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#383 Post by bigpup »

bobtron,

Windows is Windows.
Linux is Linux.
They are different because Microsoft thinks they own the look, operation, setup, and functions of Windows and no one else can use them.
Thus, Linux does the same stuff, but in a different way.

Quirky 6 is not the best for a new user. It is a test bed for new ideas and not a finished operating system.

For a new user of Puppy, I suggest Lucid Puppy 5.2.8.6
It has a very good help, with a Puppy help 101 that explains what programs do.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=90461

Linux is different from Windows and learn you must :!:

The internet is full of info about Linux. Google search for specific questions.

For info about Puppy, look in the beginners section of this forum.
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected :shock:
YaPI(any iso installer)

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Skype works on Quirky 6.1.3

#384 Post by drblock2 »

Finally got Skype working on Quirky 6.1.3.

Following Barry's suggestion, I downloaded and installed the following to provide the missing libraries: https://archive.org/download/Puppy_Linu ... uirky6.pet

I then installed Skype-4.0.0.8, which you can find here: https://archive.org/download/Puppy_Linu ... .0.0.8.sfs

I wanted to make the skype package uninstallable, just in case it didn't work, so I decided to convert it into a pet.

I used RHS's converter from here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=80909

The converter successfully unpacked the sfs file to a directory, but failed to repack it into a pet. This is essentially the same result as unpacking with the built in utility unsquashfs. In any case, you should carry out this operation on a linux partition.

Since the structure of the file system is very simple, I did not attempt to create a pet, but simply copied the files to the proper destination. For example, the subdirectory opt in the unpacked sfs directory, contains the subdirectory skype. I just copied this to /opt in Quirky 6.1.3. I suspect this is all that is necessary. Just drag the executable skype to the desktop with rox and provide it with the icon from the icons subdirectory.

And you are off and running.

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My report on Quirky 6.0

#385 Post by Billtoo »

Hey, look what I found :)
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#386 Post by Bert »

You're a great detective Billtoo :wink:

Started downloading, as soon as I had seen your post. But...ibiblio froze at 11% download. As often, nluug came to the rescue,here .

Hey, I'm running Firefox 26.0 on Quirky Tahr. No problems!
I copied FF from my Precise 5.7.1 install, put it in /home, together with .mozilla, for which I put a link in /root. All my data, bookmarks, add-ons available...

I just started exploring. Keyboard be-latin1 working fine now.
MtPaint seems to have nothing between maximized and minimized window formats.
EDIT: Moderator: can we put a ban on all posts from Bert posted after midnight, when his reading glasses are downstairs as usual?!

Running from a usb 2.0 key, it is quite fast, but not really "puppy-snappy". Compared to Ubuntu, it is super-snappy :lol:

Thanks for your post Bill!
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Re: My report on Quirky 6.0

#387 Post by broomdodger »

Billtoo wrote:Hey, look what I found :)
First try to install from the:
install-quirky-to-drive.sh
script complained that there was no:
quirky-6.0.usfs.xz
So... I renamed:
tahr-6.0.usfs.xz
And it installed from Quirky 613

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#388 Post by BarryK »

Yes, Quirky Tahr 6.0 is out:

http://bkhome.org/news/?viewDetailed=00052
[url]https://bkhome.org/news/[/url]

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Re: My report on Quirky 6.0

#389 Post by BarryK »

broomdodger wrote:
Billtoo wrote:Hey, look what I found :)
First try to install from the:
install-quirky-to-drive.sh
script complained that there was no:
quirky-6.0.usfs.xz
So... I renamed:
tahr-6.0.usfs.xz
And it installed from Quirky 613
Oops.
I will fix the script and upload it.
[url]https://bkhome.org/news/[/url]

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Re: My report on Quirky 6.0

#390 Post by BarryK »

BarryK wrote:
broomdodger wrote:
Billtoo wrote:Hey, look what I found :)
First try to install from the:
install-quirky-to-drive.sh
script complained that there was no:
quirky-6.0.usfs.xz
So... I renamed:
tahr-6.0.usfs.xz
And it installed from Quirky 613
Oops.
I will fix the script and upload it.
The scripts were looking for a name "quirky*.usfs.xz".
I have fixed them, now accept anything "*.usfs.xz"

The scripts have been re-uploaded to ibiblio.org.
[url]https://bkhome.org/news/[/url]

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Quirky Tahr

#391 Post by broomdodger »

Installed: devx-6.0-tahr.pet

Compiled: vim 7.4.160

sylpheed-3.4.0beta5 already installed
updated to: sylpheed-3.4.0beta7

But it installed in a different place, I will check first next time:
sylpheed-3.4.0beta5 is /usr/bin/sylpheed
sylpheed-3.4.0beta7 is /usr/local/bin/sylpheed

No problem on a 4GB USB I still have 2.1 GB free!

Quirky6 T2 and Quirky6 Tahr are great fun.

I checked for broken links, after installing devx so do not know if they were there before.

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173348 find -L /lib /usr -type l -exec ls -la {} +
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jan 13 20:48 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcurses.a -> libncurses.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Nov  2 07:53 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgssapi.a -> heimdal/libgssapi.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Nov  2 07:53 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libhcrypto.a -> heimdal/libhcrypto.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Nov  2 07:53 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libheimbase.a -> heimdal/libheimbase.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Nov  2 07:53 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libheimntlm.a -> heimdal/libheimntlm.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Nov  2 07:53 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libkadm5clnt.a -> heimdal/libkadm5clnt.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Nov  2 07:53 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libkadm5srv.a -> heimdal/libkadm5srv.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Nov  2 07:53 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libkrb5.a -> heimdal/libkrb5.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Nov  4 02:09 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libldap.a -> libldap_r.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Nov  2 07:53 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libroken.a -> heimdal/libroken.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Nov  2 07:53 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libwind.a -> heimdal/libwind.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 May 23  2013 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libacl.a -> /usr/lib/libacl.a
EDIT

Installed /opt/jre1.7.0_51
It is recognized by qupzilla and is working on sites I use.

Bill
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#392 Post by broomdodger »

Quirky Tahr 6.0
Menu > Setup > Adobe Flash Preferences
All tabs now work.

Quirky T2 'Playback' tab crashed.
# flash-player-properties
Segmentation fault

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#393 Post by broomdodger »

Tried to use command line 'man'

# man man
man: error while loading shared libraries: libpipeline.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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#394 Post by broomdodger »

Quirky Tahr
qupzilla crashed
This is the crash log

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Time: Wed Jan 29 18:48:03 2014
Qt version: 4.8.6 (compiled with 4.8.4)
QupZilla version: 1.6.0
WebKit version: 537.21

============== BACKTRACE ==============
#0: qupzilla(+0x2965) [0xb77e7965]
#1: [0xffffe400]
#2: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN9QIODevice5writeEPKcx+0x21) [0xb466c3d1]
#3: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtNetwork.so.4(+0x74843) [0xb3bc5843]
#4: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtNetwork.so.4(+0x59156) [0xb3baa156]
#5: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtNetwork.so.4(+0x617b5) [0xb3bb27b5]
#6: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtNetwork.so.4(+0xf1d23) [0xb3c42d23]
#7: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN14QMetaCallEvent13placeMetaCallEP7QObject+0x3a) [0xb46f689a]
#8: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN7QObject5eventEP6QEvent+0x20b) [0xb46fe6eb]
#9: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtGui.so.4(_ZN19QApplicationPrivate13notify_helperEP7QObjectP6QEvent+0xa4) [0xb498d7f4]
#10: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtGui.so.4(_ZN12QApplication6notifyEP7QObjectP6QEvent+0x203) [0xb49942d3]
#11: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN16QCoreApplication14notifyInternalEP7QObjectP6QEvent+0x7a) [0xb46e4e3a]
#12: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN23QCoreApplicationPrivate16sendPostedEventsEP7QObjectiP11QThreadData+0x1dd) [0xb46e86fd]
#13: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN16QCoreApplication16sendPostedEventsEP7QObjecti+0x2c) [0xb46e8c0c]
#14: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4(+0x1a91ee) [0xb47151ee]
#15: /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_context_dispatch+0x273) [0xb3634f73]
#16: /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0(+0x471f8) [0xb36351f8]
#17: /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_context_iteration+0x38) [0xb36352b8]
#18: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN20QEventDispatcherGlib13processEventsE6QFlagsIN10QEventLoop17ProcessEventsFlagEE+0x5f) [0xb47149cf]
#19: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtGui.so.4(+0x1ee5ee) [0xb4a425ee]
#20: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN10QEventLoop13processEventsE6QFlagsINS_17ProcessEventsFlagEE+0x43) [0xb46e3813]
#21: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN10QEventLoop4execE6QFlagsINS_17ProcessEventsFlagEE+0x179) [0xb46e3b39]
#22: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN16QCoreApplication4execEv+0x8e) [0xb46e98ee]
#23: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtGui.so.4(_ZN12QApplication4execEv+0x24) [0xb498ba24]
#24: qupzilla(main+0x6e3) [0xb77e71e3]
#25: /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf3) [0xb42cfa73]
#26: qupzilla(+0x248d) [0xb77e748d]

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#395 Post by Billtoo »

Installed to a 32gb flash drive.
Updated ppm and installed firefox,lxterminal,lxtask,icewm,icewm
themes,emelfm2,xfe,mc,wine,xine,fotowall,aisleriot,mahjonng,pupsnap,grun,links,
and video-info-glx-1.5.3-noarch.pet.

I don't have the devx or kernel source installed, I did that in an
earlier install and it didn't go well.
I tried to compile the proprietary nvidia driver and it failed, it's
not really needed with the nouveau driver giving hardware acceleration.

PPM is working well, I did need to update it to add the Quirky 6 repo.

I will do another install to a pc with ati graphics and see how that
goes.

Thankyou Barry for Quirky Tahr 6.0!
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#396 Post by Sage »

Tahr: there were issues.

Didn't find my Radeon9200/128 at first boot, but xorgwiz+xwin shows OK with modesetting.

Where has the only icon set I can tolerate gone? ! [aluminium]

Confirm
qupzilla crashed
- it happened as soon as bbc iPlayer activated, not before.

Good news: Opera deb(other) i386 works perfectly as usual. D/l direct from opera.com

Had some problems with PPM. Quirky Tahr is empty, only Ubuntu ones seem to load?

This one seems faster all round.

{ext4 partition}
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#397 Post by Billtoo »

Installed to a 16gb flash drive, pc is a gateway desktop.

video-info-glx 1.5.3 Thu 30 Jan 2014 on Quirky Tahr 6.0 Linux 3.12.6 i686
5.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS780 [Radeon HD 3200]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS
product: RS780 01.00
X Server: Xorg Driver: modesetting
X.Org version: 1.14.5
dimensions: 1920x1080 pixels (507x285 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes
AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 810 Processor
Core 0: @800 1: @800 2: @800 3: @800 MHz

After installing the devx and
linux_kernel-3.12.6-nopae-aufs-squashfsbuiltin-i486-quirky6.pet I
tried to compile the
amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13.1-legacy-linux-x86.x86_64.run
proprietary driver but it failed with an error that said 1 or more of
the necessary components was missing.

I updated ppm and installed smplayer and smtube from the ubuntu repo,
it needed a libwrap dependency which I found in ppm and installed.
I compiled mplayer-checkout-2014-01-30-i686.pet and smplayer is
working well.
Installed a few other programs from the ubuntu repo as well.

Apart from the proprietary driver not compiling Quirky Tahr is working
well so far.

EDIT:
Installing go-mtpfs-20130628.pet,mtp_detect-0.11-exper-noarch.pet,and
mtpstatus-0.3-i486.pet allows transferring files between the pc and my
nexus7 tablet.
The unmount icon is in the tray.
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#398 Post by broomdodger »

BusyBox has a 'stable' update that fixes many things
20 January 2014 -- BusyBox 1.22.1 (stable)
http://www.busybox.net/

Quirky Tahr 6.0 uses an 'unstable' BusyBox
1 January 2014 -- BusyBox 1.22.0 (unstable)

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#399 Post by Billtoo »

Installed to a 16gb flash drive, pc is an Acer desktop.

video-info-glx 1.5.3 Thu 30 Jan 2014 on Quirky Tahr 6.0 Linux 3.12.6 i686
2.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 18 )
oem: Intel(R)Ironlake Desktop Graphics Chipset Accelerated VGA BIOS
product: Intel(R)Ironlake Desktop Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0
X Server: Xorg Driver: intel
X.Org version: 1.14.5
dimensions: 1920x1080 pixels (507x285 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ironlake Desktop x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 10.0.1
Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU 540 @ 3.07GHz
Core 0: @1200 1: @1200 2: @1200 3: @1200 MHz

I installed many pets in PPM including kdegames.
Hardware acceleration is working so XBMC 12.3 runs under wine.

Quirky Tahr is working well on this pc.
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#400 Post by tronkel »

Quirky Tahr looks like yet another winner. Installed to partition no probs and recognised the Radeon graphics card with xorgwizard. Installed using Manjaro as the host.

Qupzilla doing fine as the default browser. Would be nice to get the *xz file trimmed down a little if at all feasible.

Will play with it some more over an extended period and also try out the install to USB script.
Real progress!

Should be announced on Distrowatch btw.
Life is too short to spend it in front of a computer

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