dropline GNOME 3.10
Hello to all, thanks to Eugen we have been able to release the first Alpha release of the dropline GNOME 3.10 desktop for Slackware 14.1.
More info on how to get it and install it is here: www.droplinegnome.org This is an important release for us as its the first one to use the PackageKit tool , which have also support now , again thanks to Eugen, for Slackware packages. The install is easy, of course it is not fine tuned yet, but we will improve it step by step. # installpkg PackageKit # pkcon refresh force (this refreshes the repo) # pkcon install dropline (this command downloads and installs the dropline packages) # vi /etc/profile.d/lang.sh and uncomment export LOCALE=en_US.UTF-8 and comment out the export LOCALE=en_US Merry Christmas to all and a Happy New Year 2014 ! |
Im looking forward for this, gonna give a try in a VM.
Edit: Its been hours, the downloading packages process is at 36%, is that normal?, i mean what is the avg download speed? |
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And maybe you need to install other video drivers. GDM won't start without 3D acceleration; for example I needed to install nvidia drivers, it didn't work with nouveau drivers. |
The whole gnome is about 600mb, about 300 packages.
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Anyway good work everybody, gonna leave the process there, see what happens. |
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I doubt that PackageKit supports output for each packages but it would be a nice feature - I agree - it is how slackpkg works. Maybe I will discuss it with the PK team later. Maybe one of the big packages is being downloaded, for example gnome-getting-started-docs is 82M. Download process isn't very precise now but it was very fast to implement, it will be enhanced in the near future. And thanks for testing. I'm already using the desktop for weeks on my working pc (I started before alpha), it is pretty stable, though there are some problems. I already posted some bugs on bugs.droplinegnome.org. |
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Yes but it could be dangerous because one package won't be completely downloaded and will be also skipped. It is another thing I have to implement: check if downloaded package is corrupted or not.
If you want stop, you have to kill the daemon: killall packagekitd. Just ctrl-c won't help. In the bug tracker that Sasa and I mentioned before you can also leave bug reports and feature requests for the PK backend, you can see there what I plan to do. |
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EDIT: another thing, if the pxz files have like a number before the name, i can now the order of download, so i can remove the last one and start again if something happens. just a suggestion. |
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If you have an interest, you can find the code in git: https://gitorious.org/packagekit/packagekit/. Slackware related code is in backends/katja ("Katja" is the name of the backend). The backend is written in C (GObject). Of course I appreciate any help. |
@cisneros, maybe there were also some troubles with dreamhost.com since this is our testing release we host it only on dreamhost.com after we release the stable version we will put it on the sf.net as there is a better mirroring system across the world.
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Just as a note, to pull off updates from the server which we do you have to issue the following commands:
# pkcon refresh force <- refresh the repo # pkcon get-updates <- show the updates # pkcon install dropline <- install the updates Just as a note. Report any problems. |
Hi,
I really want to test new Dropline for Slackware. But it's seem fail to start X with blinking small terminal box. Not really clear what happened as I only can see like "cannot load ??--x-font-xxx". Thus, I want to manage all things from beginning by entering command: - pkcon refresh force - pkcon get-updates - pkcon install dropline It's likely download all PKGs from beginning even same PKG with same version. Every times we hit pkcon refresh or pkcon install, it's remove all PKGs in cache/PackageKit/downloads; Is there some way to prevent download PKGs that already exists? I still have backup of dropline PKGs in another folder. That's because of my connection is limited, base on mobile data. Thank you for any help |
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