QuickPup 21.04 [RETIRED, succeeded by QuickPup64]

[mistfire]

QuickPup 21.04 released

Changes:
* Redmond Delta 10 is the new default xfce theme
* snap2 was replaced by timeshift
* Added Moserial terminal
* Improved system cleanup upon shutdown
* Fixes on shutdown script
* Fixes on initrd
* Xfce power manager can now recall display brightness. This made possible by a workaround
* Removed stray libraries
* Fixed missing crda files

Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zMgrwG ... sp=sharing
MD5 Checksum: 4a962bcf76e820d438ccd992848f8062

[one]

Hi mistfire,

thank you for this "update". But - the permission to download from your google-drive is not properly set, so download is not possible.

Your link leads to the google-login prompt for the Google-Drive ...

peace

[mistfire]

Hi mistfire,

thank you for this "update". But - the permission to download from your google-drive is not properly set, so download is not possible.

Your link leads to the google-login prompt for the Google-Drive ...

peace

Sorry for the inconvenience. The download link permission has been fixed. You can now download the file

[one]

Thank you

peace

[8Geee]

Dead fish.

D/L 21.03, burned to CD, md5sum matched
Configure eth0 (DougAl), Added FF78.9esr and installed 3 add-ons (uBlock, Clear URL, CSS exfil) and set up about:preferences. Close browser and D/C from internet
Gparted sdb1 2Gb partition to W32 and set boot flag (NO ext2/3/4 available)
Install to sdb1 shutdown with 512Mb save ext3 (3fs)
... my SanDisk USB stick that WILL boot as ext3 NO BOOT
Furthermore, the unacceptance of the cd burner caused a no handshake condition that locked the door... can't remove the CD using the button.

Well, I put AtomicPup ff66 back in, and the CD burner recognized ... door opens, toss your CD in Trash.
useless ro me... I been running 32-bit for 6 years here, and another 6 years with the EEEpc suplied Xandros.

BTW, you might try a k4.19 hernel LTS with patching from kernel org enabled.
JMHO and experience
8Geee

[mistfire]

@8Geee

What's the specs of your computer including name and model?

[8Geee]

intel N270 Atom, non-uefi 32-bit (i686), i915 video, 2Gb mem., 8Gb SanDisk stubby, 16Gb internal SDD.

[esos]

Quickpup 21.04 frugal install with grub4dos.
After first quickpupsave.3fs is created,
it wont boot up anymore (boot error!!!)

[mistfire]

Quickpup 21.04 frugal install with grub4dos.
After first quickpupsave.3fs is created,
it wont boot up anymore (boot error!!!)

Did you put the main sfs file on a folder?

If error message dialog was shown on dialog, choose save temp file. select the drive where to save the temp files. Once the temp files was saved (in tarball). Send the temp files on this thread

[mistfire]

On my latest experiment. I successfully build QuickPup64 from ScPup64. However not fit for release because the samba's reliance on ICU68 while the other components relies on ICU69 (I need to make all apps rely on ICU69 to reduce bloat further). Also the icon bug on legacy systray of xfce4-panel 4.16. The system tray failed to refresh icons. It leaves the previous icon behind the updated one

[peebee]

On my latest experiment. I successfully build QuickPup64 from ScPup64. However not fit for release because the samba's reliance on ICU68 while the other components relies on ICU69 (I need to make all apps rely on ICU69 to reduce bloat further). Also the icon bug on legacy systray of xfce4-panel 4.16. The system tray failed to refresh icons. It leaves the previous icon behind the updated one

You probably need a rebuild of ScPup64......... Samba has to be recompiled every time icu updates........... I reverted xfce-panel to version 4.14 to make systray work........... I will be interested to know if 64-bit Thunar crashes for you........

ydrv for ScPup64:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/lxpup/ ... s/download

[mistfire]

On my latest experiment. I successfully build QuickPup64 from ScPup64. However not fit for release because the samba's reliance on ICU68 while the other components relies on ICU69 (I need to make all apps rely on ICU69 to reduce bloat further). Also the icon bug on legacy systray of xfce4-panel 4.16. The system tray failed to refresh icons. It leaves the previous icon behind the updated one

You probably need a rebuild of ScPup64......... Samba has to be recompiled every time icu updates........... I reverted xfce-panel to version 4.14 to make systray work........... I will be interested to know if 64-bit Thunar crashes for you........

ydrv for ScPup64:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/lxpup/ ... s/download

I installed the xfce manually from slackware current repo. I only got from sfs files you provided was only desktop files. The stock desktop file ones shows nothing on xfce4 settings manager. The latest 64-bit thunar from slackware current repo doesn't crash and runs smoothly. The whole 64-bit xfce desktop runs nicely except xfce4-screenshooter which blackens the screen if compositor was enabled. xfce-panels is not compatible with xfce4-panel 4.16 and it pulls older libs.

[mistfire]

@peebee Do you have samba 4.12 precompiled against ICU69? Due to my limited bandwidth I can't setup compiling environment.

[peebee]

I have uploaded :
https://sourceforge.net/projects/spup/f ... a/download
119MB - interim release
which is the delta to produce:
b9760a31468e041a451e9d2d25559e1c ScPup64-21.04+3-T.iso
from
add045380c83383e3ba04338ed200b68 ScPup64-21.04+0-T.iso

[tosim]

Thanks for the heads-up.

[mistfire]

I have uploaded :
https://sourceforge.net/projects/spup/f ... a/download
119MB - interim release
which is the delta to produce:
b9760a31468e041a451e9d2d25559e1c ScPup64-21.04+3-T.iso
from
add045380c83383e3ba04338ed200b68 ScPup64-21.04+0-T.iso

I use Scpup64-21.04+2 iso. Your delta files provided will not work. Can you provide 21.04+2--21.04+3 delta file instead?

[mistfire]

@peebee

I successfully extracted samba from ScPup 21.04+3 and installed it on my QuickPup64 21.04. The main SFS size reduced by 10Mb. What a big file size reduction

[peebee]

@peebee

I successfully extracted samba from ScPup 21.04+3 and installed it on my QuickPup64 21.04. The main SFS size reduced by 10Mb. What a big file size reduction

What compression and blocksize did you use?

[mistfire]

@peebee

I successfully extracted samba from ScPup 21.04+3 and installed it on my QuickPup64 21.04. The main SFS size reduced by 10Mb. What a big file size reduction

What compression and blocksize did you use?

1Mb block size, xz compression

[peebee]

@peebee

I successfully extracted samba from ScPup 21.04+3 and installed it on my QuickPup64 21.04. The main SFS size reduced by 10Mb. What a big file size reduction

What compression and blocksize did you use?

1Mb block size, xz compression

Original is 0.5MB blocksize..........

[esos]

This is the boot screen error picture and after 60 seconds just quit.
It is something wrong with created quickpupsave.3fs

[mistfire]

This is the boot screen error picture and after 60 seconds just quit.
It is something wrong with created quickpupsave.3fs

Does your drive where the savefile is created works fine without filesystem corruptions?

[esos]

I think my HDD works fine. It is setup with grub4dos for multiboot, hundreds of bootable ISO files (ntfs-sda5) and frugal folders (EXT3-sda6) for testing.

I replaced the created quickpupsave.3fs with previous version (dont remember which .3fs version it was) and it booted up fine with this menu.lst:
title Quickpup_21.04
root (hd0,5)
kernel /Quickpup/vmlinuz psave=/Quickpup pmedia=atahd pupsfs=sda6:/Quickpup/puppy_quickpup_21.00.sfs psubdir=/Quickpup
initrd /Quickpup/initrd.xz

This G4D configuration also works fine, but it will not create quickpupsave.3fs. It will save automatically without asking YES or NO and will create automatically a lot of folders inside /quickpup/
title Quickpup_21.04
root (hd0,5)
kernel /Quickpup/vmlinuz pupsfs=sda6:/Quickpup/puppy_quickpup_21.00.sfs psubdir=/Quickpup psave=sda6:/Quickpup pmedia=atahd
initrd /Quickpup/initrd.xz

[mistfire]

I think my HDD works fine. It is setup with grub4dos for multiboot, hundreds of bootable ISO files (ntfs-sda5) and frugal folders (EXT3-sda6) for testing.

I replaced the created quickpupsave.3fs with previous version (dont remember which .3fs version it was) and it booted up fine with this menu.lst:
title Quickpup_21.04
root (hd0,5)
kernel /Quickpup/vmlinuz psave=/Quickpup pmedia=atahd pupsfs=sda6:/Quickpup/puppy_quickpup_21.00.sfs psubdir=/Quickpup
initrd /Quickpup/initrd.xz

This G4D configuration also works fine, but it will not create quickpupsave.3fs. It will save automatically without asking YES or NO and will create automatically a lot of folders inside /quickpup/
title Quickpup_21.04
root (hd0,5)
kernel /Quickpup/vmlinuz pupsfs=sda6:/Quickpup/puppy_quickpup_21.00.sfs psubdir=/Quickpup psave=sda6:/Quickpup pmedia=atahd
initrd /Quickpup/initrd.xz

If the storage device was fine, did you check the filesystem if was not corrupted? Well according to your bootloader configuration, savepath was already specified on PSAVE parameter so it will automatically save the session upon shutdown

[esos]

"did you check the filesystem if was not corrupted?"

Sorry, I dont know how to check the filesystem is corrupted or not.
In my case, the created save file "quickpupsave.3fs" is exist in the /Quickpup folder and at next booting Quickpup v.21.04 give me boot error (see the boot error picture I sent). The result using other PC is exactly the same boot error.

Hope somebody will do the test?
or maybe just my mistake somewhere.

[mistfire]

64-bit QuickPup is now eminent for release. However it hit another roadblock, double clicking a file on a Desktop shows Dbus error message related to Thunar and it turns out that Thunar crashed when called by dbus upon request by xfdesktop. However launching Thunar from terminal or double clicking /usr/bin/thunar doesn't crash thunar

[+Me]

G'day Mistfire, I've Successfully installed this 32-bit Quickpup 21.04 on a 32-bit 2014 Acer C720 KromeBook No longer supported by Google ( ie. No more updates ). Using MrChromeBox Firmware. I don't want 2 use Google Drive because it only offers 15 GB of Cloud Storage whereas We can have 50 GB 4 Free w/ MegaSync. I've installed megasync-Debian_10.0_i3-86.deb But it doesn't run. When I Try 2 run it from the Terminal it just returns megasync: error while loading shared libraries: libmediainfo.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. Of course I've already ReSearched this Error on the iNet.

Furthermore I've got another Dozen or so of these... Please Help!

;-)K

[mistfire]

megasync: error while loading shared libraries: libmediainfo.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.

• Search List Dependencies on Application Menu

• Click Browse and select the megasync executable command at /usr/bin then click OK

• Click Missing to find out what library files where missing

• Go to https://pkgs.org to search for missing packages. Choose debian version of the package

[+Me]

Thanx Mistfire 4 your Quick Reply, I've Tried 3 Packages But they're Not installing. Could it be because the Repository only offers intel 64-bit Not i686 aRchitectures?

;-)K

[mistfire]

Could it be because the Repository only offers intel 64-bit Not i686 aRchitectures?

Mostly Fedora, Slackware, Debian still supports 32-bit.
Sadly to say that 32-bit packages was getting rare and I have no choice but to move to 64-bit since QuickPup target was 2010's or newer computers which commonly uses 64-bit cpu. QuickPup64 is now reached BETA and requires fixes for XFCE 4.16 in order to reached stable release.