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mike delaw
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#196 Post by mike delaw »

simargl wrote:
Arefacti wrote:sorry for my newbie's question..again, :oops:
To upgrade 3.0 to 4.0, how can I do ? (frugal install).
first mount new iso:

mkdir new
mount alpha*.iso new

then copy alpha_400.sfs and extra_400.sfs to your frugal installation folder
and replace old vmlinuz and initrd.gz with files from new version
Cheers
Open iso with 7Zip and take those files out ...

Arefacti
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#197 Post by Arefacti »

mike delaw wrote:
simargl wrote:
Arefacti wrote:sorry for my newbie's question..again, :oops:
To upgrade 3.0 to 4.0, how can I do ? (frugal install).
first mount new iso:

mkdir new
mount alpha*.iso new

then copy alpha_400.sfs and extra_400.sfs to your frugal installation folder
and replace old vmlinuz and initrd.gz with files from new version
Cheers
Open iso with 7Zip and take those files out ...
Thanks you two !
I understand the way ! :wink:

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#198 Post by Arefacti »

simargl wrote:
mike delaw wrote:ATI RADEON 9550.

Please upload AlphaOS4 on Sourceforge ...
it's uploading :wink:
........slowly ! :lol:
I can't wait !

mike delaw
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#199 Post by mike delaw »

Dial-up ... :D

Arefacti
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Alpha 4.0

#200 Post by Arefacti »

got it !

works perfectly.
Must say something :

since I started using Alpha OS X has never crashed

and it's not the same thing for other distributions (Puppy or other..)

Best regards

simargl

#201 Post by simargl »

mike delaw wrote:Dial-up ... :D
it's dsl, but lowest speed package

simargl

#202 Post by simargl »

Changes in repository

Removed:
- pacman

Added:
- qpdfview https://launchpad.net/qpdfview
- poppler-qt

Arefacti
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demand

#203 Post by Arefacti »

I would like to get Tor-bundle,is it possible ?
try to get it with paka without success

simargl

Re: demand

#204 Post by simargl »

Arefacti wrote:I would like to get Tor-bundle,is it possible ?
try to get it with paka without success
Hi Arefacti, did you try to download from https://www.torproject.org/download/dow ... sy.html.en Description from the site Everything you need to safely browse the Internet. This package requires no installation. Just extract it and run.

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#205 Post by Arefacti »

Hello

thanks..once again..Simargl.

I'm a victim of : "it can't be easy" ! :oops:

Tor works perfectly it wasn't start on root, but this problem was know.

see you soon all !

simargl

#206 Post by simargl »

I'm now compiling xfce using description about dependencies from this site
http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/building

It will be like standard xfce but without thunar, as we already have spacefm.
Will also add gnome icon theme, some icons are missing in my cut-down version of faenza.

Arefacti, to start program as regular user open terminal and type: su alpha and then tor-browser
Cheers

simargl

#207 Post by simargl »

Xfce Desktop Environment

Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and low on system resources, while still being visually appealing and user friendly.

You need to Install xfce4-session package and that will get all the others as dependencies. Then press Logout in openbox, on next xorg start you will be using Xfce. Total number of packages is 12, size 7.2 Mb gnome-icons-theme alone is 3.5 Mb all locales are enabled..

Note: when you remove package xfce4-session, with post_install function it will restore openbox as default window manager
Image

simargl

#208 Post by simargl »

http://code.google.com/p/alphaos/downloads/list

New packages
gnome-nibbles-3.8.0-1.spkg
pygtk-2.24.0-3.spkg
pygobject-2.28.6-1.spkg
pycairo-1.8.10-3.spkg
obmenu-1.0-9.spkg
libcanberra-0.30-3.spkg
json-glib-0.15.2-1.spkg
cogl-1.14.0-1.spkg
clutter-gtk-1.4.4-1.spkg
clutter-1.14.0-1.spkg
python-2.7.3-4.spkg

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#209 Post by gulk »

Hi Simargl,

I'm following the thread on and off and the alphaOS looks very promising.
I got a bit confused by the package system. On one hand, it seems the default Arch packages can be installed using pacman, on the other hand I see you come up with a list of packages you're building yourself from scratch. What would be the difference?

Keep it up!
gulk

simargl

#210 Post by simargl »

Hi gulk thanks for your interest

pacman can install programs but some of them will not work because they are compiled for Arch kernel and udev version, that was problem in archpup also. Example is virtual box that did not work in archpup but here it works, second example is deadbeef - it could not compile in archpup because of missing iconv in glibc. Those kind of problems were unsolvable for me ; I could not update udev because with newer version sound and internet connections didn't work. It might sound strange but maintaining alphaOS for me is easier than Archpup, I don't need to compile new kernel for every new release as glibc version is locked at 2.17. Having two package managers in same system is not good idea so pacman is removed from repository, but here is Sensei made by stifiling to support installing programs with pacman only.

Cheers

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ndrancs
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gt 430

#211 Post by ndrancs »

simargl wrote:
mike delaw wrote:ATI RADEON 9550.

Please upload AlphaOS4 on Sourceforge ...
it's uploading :wink:
hi simargl, Thanks for the version 4 without nouveau. ;)
i have a vga card, nvidia gt 430, and download the driver from here ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86 after compile it succesfully, and run alphaosx, i see the desktop but my key and mouse not working, but the conky Uptime is working. i examine the xorg log file, #less /var/log/Xorg.0.log the keyboard and mouse are disable.

can i have glipper in googlecode repo? and ffmpeg with libvorbis, libmp3lame, libfaac, libaacplus,x264, like in arhhpup version.

current ffmpeg with so many disable feature:

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[root@alphaos ~]# ffmpeg 
ffmpeg version 1.1.4 Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Mar 29 2013 10:03:43 with gcc 4.7.2 (alphaOS)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-x11grab --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --enable-libfreetype --enable-zlib --disable-libvorbis --disable-avisynth --disable-bzlib --disable-frei0r --disable-gnutls --disable-libaacplus --disable-libass --disable-libcelt --disable-libopencore-amrnb --disable-libopencore-amrwb --disable-libopencv --disable-libcdio --disable-libdc1394 --disable-libfaac --disable-libgsm --disable-libmodplug --disable-libmp3lame --disable-libnut --disable-libopenjpeg --disable-libpulse --disable-librtmp --disable-libschroedinger --disable-libspeex --disable-libstagefright-h264 --disable-libtheora --disable-libutvideo --disable-libv4l2 --disable-libvo-aacenc --disable-libvo-amrwbenc --disable-libvpx --disable-libx264 --disable-libxavs --disable-libxvid --disable-openal --disable-debug --disable-yasm --disable-doc --disable-ffprobe --disable-ffserver --disable-static
  libavutil      52. 13.100 / 52. 13.100
  libavcodec     54. 86.100 / 54. 86.100
  libavformat    54. 59.106 / 54. 59.106
  libavdevice    54.  3.102 / 54.  3.102
  libavfilter     3. 32.100 /  3. 32.100
  libswscale      2.  1.103 /  2.  1.103
  libswresample   0. 17.102 /  0. 17.102
  libpostproc    52.  2.100 / 52.  2.100
Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder
usage: ffmpeg [options] [[infile options] -i infile]... {[outfile options] outfile}...

Use -h to get full help or, even better, run 'man ffmpeg'
Thanks you very much, and sorry for my bad english.

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problem openbox

#212 Post by Arefacti »

Hello

I tested XFCE4 and wanted to return to openbox.

So, I removed xfce4 packages and re start X
openbox start well but the menu had problems. Those windows appears and the applications don't start :

Invalid output from pipe-menu "openbox-menu /etc/xdg/menus/lxde-applications.menu"

Have you ideas please ?

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ndrancs
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Re: problem openbox

#213 Post by ndrancs »

Arefacti wrote:Hello

I tested XFCE4 and wanted to return to openbox.

So, I removed xfce4 packages and re start X
openbox start well but the menu had problems. Those windows appears and the applications don't start :

Invalid output from pipe-menu "openbox-menu /etc/xdg/menus/lxde-applications.menu"

Have you ideas please ?
add this to kernel paramater:

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pfix=purge

simargl

#214 Post by simargl »

New packages added:

parcellite-1.1.4-1.spkg
Lightweight GTK+ clipboard manager

polkit-0.104-2.spkg
Toolkit for controlling system-wide privileges

gconf-3.2.6-1.spkg
A configuration database system

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#215 Post by ndrancs »

simargl wrote:New packages added:

parcellite-1.1.4-1.spkg
Lightweight GTK+ clipboard manager

polkit-0.104-2.spkg
Toolkit for controlling system-wide privileges

gconf-3.2.6-1.spkg
A configuration database system
hi simargl
thanks for the update, and how about ffmpeg, may i compile it myself?

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