EasyOS Scarthgap-series version 6.3.1

[pp4mnklinux]

Blog announcement:
https://bkhome.org/news/202407/easyos-s ... eased.html

Installed.

[BarryK]

I'm just about to compile Chromium 126.0.6478.126 in OpenEmbedded.
Got it from here:

https://github.com/OSSystems/meta-browser

I have to compile it, as the official x86_64 packages from Google don't support all the video codecs required to play videos at YouTube.
Which would be Google's way of persuading us to move to Chrome.

There are other binary builds out there, but for security I would prefer to compile it myself.

There are Chromium binary packages from relatively trusted repositories, such as Debian; however, they are compiled with more and different dependencies. Compiling it myself, it links to shared libraries available in EasyOS, so there is a perfect match and a smaller package.

The downside is that Chromium is a monster to compile. On my Lenovo PC, takes a couple of days. Needs a huge amount of RAM, especially at the final link step; my Lenovo has 32GB. My Lenovo is the main daily workhorse, and while the Chromium build is going on, don't want to disturb it too much by doing other things.

So might not be responding much on the forum for the next couple of days.
Will likely use a laptop to read emails and forum, but won't do any development on the Lenovo.
Just so you know!

[rooftop]

Hi, A very minor issue. The man command (pman) is not working when it needs to do a Google search (it just goes to the Google search start page). The error appears to be an extra '&' after 'search?' in line 179 of /usr/bin/pman:

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exec $HTMLVIEWER "http://www.google.com/search?&q=man+\"${NAME}\"+site:linux.die.net&btnI=Search"

This works:

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exec $HTMLVIEWER "http://www.google.com/search?q=man+\"${NAME}\"+site:linux.die.net&btnI=Search"

[Maybe]

Hello! When I launch EasyOS from a flash drive, I get the following message:

[Maybe]

I tried another way. I manually copied the three files to a folder on my hard drive and changed the entry in limine.cfg. As a result, I get this message:

[Maybe]

Please help me understand what I'm doing wrong and help me to try the new version EasyOS 6.0.4

From Dmitry (Russia)

[FeodorF]

Greetings, @Maybe

Hello! When I launch EasyOS from a flash drive, I get the following message:

The following pictures show an example how your USB stick should look.

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Did you use an older version of easyOS to write the image to the stick or any other tool?

[bugnaw333]

Hello! When I launch EasyOS from a flash drive, I get the following message:

What prog. did you use when installing the .img file in your USB stick? So far, EasyDD and Rufus have no problems for me.

[FeodorF]

@Maybe

I tried another way. I manually copied the three files to a folder on my hard drive and changed the entry in limine.cfg. As a result, I get this message:

Good morning Dmitry,

you should have copied the files to a partition instead of a folder.
The partition also needs to have the label easy2.

[FeodorF]

Using a micro SD card to boot Scarthgap v. 6.0.4

I have followed Barry's instructions on how to use EasyDD on a foreign Linux system,
https://bkhome.org/linux/easydd-write-i ... drive.html and copied the file
https://bkhome.org/files/easydd.gz onto my Raspberry Pi running PiOS (Legacy 64-bit Bullseye).
Instead of a USB stick I used a USB 2.0 Multi Card Reader plus micro SDHC UHS-I card with adapter.

Like Barry stated "easy-peasy"!

All I had to do copy easydd to /bin and # sudo easydd /home/rpi/Downloads/easyOS/easy-6.0.4-amd64.img /dev/sdb

System used:
Lenovo ThinkCentre midi tower PC (2010, BIOS (Legacy Boot), w USB 2.0 only) Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU E3400 @ 2.60GHz (2 cores)
Alcor Micro Corp. AU6375 4-LUN card reader, USB 2.0, 32 GB micro SDHC (max. size for this card reader)

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Remark
PiOS (Bullseye) uses an old dd (coreutils) version 8.32, Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. but it is still good to use with Barry`s easyDD. In contrast to this easyOS 6.0.4 (Scarthgap) uses dd (coreutils) version 9.4, Copyright (C) 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

[LarryDC]

Regarding claws-mail:
One can't log in to Australia's illustrious "fastmail" email provider because its "Plain login" to imap requires that "libetpan" be compiled with SASL.
It appears that libetpan-1.9.4-r1 from oe-scarthgap-official is not.

BTW: Thanks, Barry, for including the best email client ...IMHO, of course.

[tammi806]

Wow Cool I had know idea there was a new upgrade update which I have applied and so far everything I have used has worked OOTB.

My update went without issues and all seems to be working well.

Thanks for all of your work Barry K.

FWIW.
When I create bootable USB flash drives if DD Copy is available I use it always seems to give good results.

My other choice is Balena Etcher and I have had good results using it in the past.

[BarryK]

Regarding claws-mail:
One can't log in to Australia's illustrious "fastmail" email provider because its "Plain login" to imap requires that "libetpan" be compiled with SASL.
It appears that libetpan-1.9.4-r1 from oe-scarthgap-official is not.

BTW: Thanks, Barry, for including the best email client ...IMHO, of course.

Thanks for reporting, I will check that out.

Regarding Fastmail, this is a good read:

https://restoreprivacy.com/email/reviews/fastmail/

[oldstupidox]

Hi, BarryK, thanks for your good job.
I'm a Chinese, and I couldn't install SCIM by pkg, which is a Chinese input method. How can I do?

[jamesbond]

Hi, BarryK, thanks for your good job.
I'm a Chinese, and I couldn't install SCIM by pkg, which is a Chinese input method. How can I do?

Forum member @icake provides Chinese input method for many puppies. Here's one for EasyOS Scarthgap: viewtopic.php?p=124710#p124710

[don570]

Note to BarryK
The documentation for a frugal install needs to be fixed.
Bracket needs to added at end ---> explained here
viewtopic.php?p=125510#p125510
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[BarryK]

Hi, A very minor issue. The man command (pman) is not working when it needs to do a Google search (it just goes to the Google search start page). The error appears to be an extra '&' after 'search?' in line 179 of /usr/bin/pman:

Code: Select all

exec $HTMLVIEWER "http://www.google.com/search?&q=man+\"${NAME}\"+site:linux.die.net&btnI=Search"

This works:

Code: Select all

exec $HTMLVIEWER "http://www.google.com/search?q=man+\"${NAME}\"+site:linux.die.net&btnI=Search"

Thanks for that, fixed.

[BarryK]

Hi, BarryK, thanks for your good job.
I'm a Chinese, and I couldn't install SCIM by pkg, which is a Chinese input method. How can I do?

Click on the "pkg" desktop icon, choose PKGget.

Then click the "pet-scarthgap" repository radiobutton, then "ALL" radiobutton.

There is a PET package named "yong*.pet", install that.

Um, icake did send me another PET, what did I do with that?
I can't remember. Does that "yong*pet" have what you need?

EDIT:
See post from jamesbond

[BarryK]

Hi, BarryK, thanks for your good job.
I'm a Chinese, and I couldn't install SCIM by pkg, which is a Chinese input method. How can I do?

Forum member @icake provides Chinese input method for many puppies. Here's one for EasyOS Scarthgap: viewtopic.php?p=124710#p124710

James,
Thanks for refreshing my memory!

[FeodorF]

Hi, @BarryK

YouTubeDL stopped working.
'Forbidden' message pops up instead.

Last week of June downloads worked just fine.
It's not update related (6.0.2 -> 6.0.4).

Regards,
Feodor

[pp4mnklinux]

Hi, @BarryK

YouTubeDL stopped working.
'Forbidden' message pops up instead.

Last week of June downloads worked just fine.
It's not update related (6.0.2 -> 6.0.4).

Regards,
Feodor

I could be wrong, of course, but that is the reason I prefer to work with online download services. I don't need to update backups or modify software, I link to a download page and the owner of this page is the one who update it.

It usually works for me.

[jamesbond]

YouTubeDL stopped working.
'Forbidden' message pops up instead.

Youtube changes its API. All third party youtube client is currently broken. Fixes is in underway for youtube-dl and its friends, it will be available in the next few days; but you need to update to the latest version.

[FeodorF]

Thank you @jamesbond, (I had IP6 in mind.) I'll stay tuned.
Regards

[BarryK]

YouTubeDL stopped working.
'Forbidden' message pops up instead.

Youtube changes its API. All third party youtube client is currently broken. Fixes is in underway for youtube-dl and its friends, it will be available in the next few days; but you need to update to the latest version.

I'm waiting on youtube-dl to be fixed before releasing easy 6.1

I'm monitoring here:

https://github.com/ytdl-org/ytdl-nightly/releases/

[oldstupidox2024]

Hi, BarryK, thanks for your good job.
I'm a Chinese, and I couldn't install SCIM by pkg, which is a Chinese input method. How can I do?

Click on the "pkg" desktop icon, choose PKGget.

Then click the "pet-scarthgap" repository radiobutton, then "ALL" radiobutton.

There is a PET package named "yong*.pet", install that.

Um, icake did send me another PET, what did I do with that?
I can't remember. Does that "yong*pet" have what you need?

EDIT:
See post from jamesbond

The "yong*pet" installed, it worked in Geany, but not in all of broswer.
Open Geany, then type CTRL+SPACE, then type some English character, choose an Chinese character. It's ok.
Open broswer, then type CTRL+SPACE, um, nothing works.

EDIT:
Forgive my poor English. By the way, I have to register a new account named 'oldstupidox2024' because I forgot the password of account 'oldstupidox'.

[BarryK]

YouTubeDL stopped working.
'Forbidden' message pops up instead.

Youtube changes its API. All third party youtube client is currently broken. Fixes is in underway for youtube-dl and its friends, it will be available in the next few days; but you need to update to the latest version.

I'm waiting on youtube-dl to be fixed before releasing easy 6.1

I'm monitoring here:

https://github.com/ytdl-org/ytdl-nightly/releases/

I downloaded the latest zip file from here:

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

Expanded and ran 'make'. youtube-dl works.

[BarryK]

6.1 is out. Blog announcement:

https://bkhome.org/news/202407/easyos-s ... eased.html

[fredx181]

YouTubeDL stopped working.
'Forbidden' message pops up instead.

Youtube changes its API. All third party youtube client is currently broken. Fixes is in underway for youtube-dl and its friends, it will be available in the next few days; but you need to update to the latest version.

I'm waiting on youtube-dl to be fixed before releasing easy 6.1

I'm monitoring here:

https://github.com/ytdl-org/ytdl-nightly/releases/

From https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/ ... 2021.12.17 :

This release is old and has many known issues. See "... commits to master since this release" above.

You almost certainly want the nightly build release, and not this one.

The 2021.12.17 version cannot work anymore, I think (at least not for me).
The nightly release works ok for me: https://github.com/ytdl-org/ytdl-nightly/releases/
EDIT: To add: found that it works for me with python3 (v3.11) and also with (old) python2 (v2,7), not bad !

[pp4mnklinux]

Hello everybody:

I updated easyos to version 6.1 and in my computer there is no problem when downloading videos using youtube-dl.

It works perfectly.

Thanks.

Have a nice day, enjoy EasyOs.

[tammi806]

6.1 is out. Blog announcement:

https://bkhome.org/news/202407/easyos-s ... eased.html

Did my update / upgrade to 6.1 and everything I use seems to be fine.

Thanks Barry K.