Quirky April 7.0 - 7.0.3, 7.0.4, 7.0.4.1

[BarryK]

Hi guys,

The GetFlash address might have changed or this comment might be rubbish. With Precise 5.6, when GetFlash failed, I installed a later pet version from 666philb and that fixed it for me.

My regards

Yes, Adobe have moved the goal posts. They must have done that recently, coz I also used GetFlash OK in April 7.0.

I got some code out of /usr/sbin/getflash:

# CHECKURL='http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/downlo ... andalone=1'
# curl -s "$CHECKURL" | grep -o 'http://fpdownload.*inux.x86_64.tar.gz'

...fails.

The GetFlash PET I am using was modified by 01micko to work for both 32-bit and 64-bit x86.
So, the 32-bit-only GetFlash PETs are not suitable.

I wonder if FatDog64 has hit this problem?
...um, looking at ibiblio.org, fatDog64 700 doesn't seem to use GetFlash.

So, it might be a matter of creating a new PET.

Has anyone got a PET that does work?
if it is only 32-bit x86, I can merge 01micko's 64-bit changes into that.

Or, does anyone know the new URL, so I can put that into the PET?

[Billtoo]

When I go to http://www.adobe.com/ca/ and then click on Flash Player it
goes here https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/?no_redirect and I
then select the version to download.

[BarryK]

Hi guys,

The GetFlash address might have changed or this comment might be rubbish. With Precise 5.6, when GetFlash failed, I installed a later pet version from 666philb and that fixed it for me.

My regards

Yes, Adobe have moved the goal posts. They must have done that recently, coz I also used GetFlash OK in April 7.0.

I got some code out of /usr/sbin/getflash:

# CHECKURL='http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/downlo ... andalone=1'
# curl -s "$CHECKURL" | grep -o 'http://fpdownload.*inux.x86_64.tar.gz'

...fails.

The GetFlash PET I am using was modified by 01micko to work for both 32-bit and 64-bit x86.
So, the 32-bit-only GetFlash PETs are not suitable.

I wonder if FatDog64 has hit this problem?
...um, looking at ibiblio.org, fatDog64 700 doesn't seem to use GetFlash.

So, it might be a matter of creating a new PET.

Has anyone got a PET that does work?
if it is only 32-bit x86, I can merge 01micko's 64-bit changes into that.

Or, does anyone know the new URL, so I can put that into the PET?

Got it:

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# CHECKURL='https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/download/?installer=Flash_Player_11.2_for_other_Linux_(.tar.gz)_64-bit&standalone=1'
# curl -s "$CHECKURL" | grep -o 'https://fpdownload.*inux.x86_64.tar.gz'
https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/11.2.202.442/install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz
# 

I can fix the PET, however, there is a problem:

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# wget https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/11.2.202.442/install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz
--2015-03-05 20:38:35--  https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/11.2.202.442/install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz
Resolving fpdownload.macromedia.com (fpdownload.macromedia.com)... 23.63.56.131
Connecting to fpdownload.macromedia.com (fpdownload.macromedia.com)|23.63.56.131|:443... connected.
ERROR: cannot verify fpdownload.macromedia.com's certificate, issued by ‘/C=US/O=Symantec Corporation/OU=Symantec Trust Network/CN=Symantec Class 3 Secure Server CA - G4’:
  Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority.
To connect to fpdownload.macromedia.com insecurely, use `--no-check-certificate'.

...ok, have fixed it, will post updated getflash soon.

[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.

[L18L]

Upgraded my copy of Quirky7 April64 on partition of usb stick from 7.0

A picture says more then 100...
Just because my pic is not in English language some words are needed.

Upgrade

Step 1 : click install button at desktop

Step 2 : click OK at automatically opened window

Continue as usual: click OK if asked

Note, because using a boot manager the title had to be changed manually from
title Quirky 7.0 (full install on sdc6)
to
title Quirky 7.0.1 (full install on sdc6)
as it have seen it be used somewhere....

Hope that helps some new bees...

From the photo you posted, I see a bug.

The size of the Service Pack is shown as "0K".

When I did it, I got the correct size.

I am running LANG=en_US.UTF-8

The relevant script is /usr/local/petget/service_pack.sh

I pulled some lines out of it:

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# export LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
# 
# . /etc/DISTRO_SPECS
# . /root/.packages/DISTRO_PET_REPOS
# DBFILE="Packages\-pet\-${DISTRO_DB_SUBNAME}\-"
# URLSPEC0="$(echo "$PKG_DOCS_PET_REPOS" | tr ' ' '\n' | grep "$DBFILE" | head -n 1 | cut -f 2 -d '|' | rev | cut -f 2-9 -d '/' | rev)"
# wget -4 -t 2 -T 20 --waitretry=20 --spider -S --recursive --no-parent --no-directories -A 'service_pack*.pet' "$URLSPEC" > /tmp/petget/service_pack_probe 2>&1
# PTN1=" ${URLSPEC}service_pack.*\.pet$"
# FNDPETURLS="$(grep -o "$PTN1" /tmp/petget/service_pack_probe | grep -v '\*' | tr '\n' ' ')"
# PARAS="$(cat /tmp/petget/service_pack_probe | sed -e 's%^$%BLANKLINE%' | tr '\n' ' ' | tr -s ' ' | sed -e 's%BLANKLINE%\n%g')"
# LENB=`echo "$PARAS" | grep -o ' Length: [0-9]* ' | cut -f 3 -d ' '`
# echo "$LENB"
39
1127918

...in other words, it has extracted the length ok, that is "1127918"

So, why is it not working for you?
[/code]

And I did not care about and even not notice that

The size of the Service Pack is shown as "0K".

Thus you see more bugs than I do.

Running the code you sent me, no result, looking closer now:

Länge: 1127918 (1,1M) [application/octet-stream]

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# grep 1127918 /tmp/petget/service_pack_probe 
  Content-Length: 1127918
Länge: 1127918 (1,1M) [application/octet-stream]
# 

Mightbe

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# grep Content-Length /tmp/petget/service_pack_probe | cut -d':' -f2 | sort | head -n 1
 1127918
#

is better?

[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
# #qwertzuiopü+
# љњертзуиопшпqwertzљњертз[/code]
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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.