EasyOS Kirkstone-series version 5.5.1

[don570]

I would appreciate instructions to install krita SFS file in Easy version 5.4.5.
No Internet install. Just drag in SFS file.
Does Buster or Dunfell have to be installed??
I get a path error in boot message when I try to install krita SFS
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[bugnaw333]

I have tried installing it thru internet (SFSGet) but it can only be installed on a new container:

[BarryK]

Operating system loader has no signature. Incompatible with secure boot. All bootable devices failed secure boto verification"

I can't help, as all my computers have secure boot turned off, and I have never attempted to get EasyOS, nor before that Quirky or Puppy, to work with secure boot.

Some other guys who build Puppy-derivatives, such as the FatDog devs, have experience with secure boot.

[BarryK]

I tried to make a right click menu item to edit a WAV file with gwaveedit using 'Customize' option in menu

I haven't understood. What app has that "Customize" option?

...oh, I see, "Customize Menu..." when right-click on a desktop icon.

But what icon did you right-click on?

One way to fix it would be to add "MimeType=" entry into gwaveedit.desktop.

Another way, that I have now done, is insert this into line 137 in /usr/sbin/build-rox-sendto:

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  gwaveedit) MIMEDIR='audio'; aNAME='gWaveEdit' ;;

...that will put gwaveedit into right-click menu for all audio files.

This will be in the next release of Easy, 5.4.6.

[BarryK]

EasyOS 5.4.6 released. Announcement and d/l links:

https://bkhome.org/news/202307/easyos-k ... eased.html

Flapi failure now fixed:

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[Jean-Louis CANONNE]

Hi Barry, Hi everybody. Many thanks Barry for this update. I updated automatically from the precedent version.
I have not tested many things since this very recent update, but I was surprised as i saw the remaining place indicator showing me only 5 Mo and turned to red. I immediately shutdown EasyOs and saved the session.
This was at the first launch after the update. Now the level indicator is turned to green ans shows 8.8 go concerning the free space. My usb key is a new Sandisk which size is 256 go. In order to have more information,
I used Partview, Gparted and Graphical Disk Map as shown in the joined picture that I got with Take a Shot.
Wifi works fine but with my phone as hotspot. I have not yet tested this version with my USB wifi key.I

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The results are very different,and I don't know why.
Many thanks again Barry, with my best wishes and very cordially
Jean-Louis Canonne

[kagashe]

No internet access for Libreoffice Calc file

I have a Mutual Fund Tracker ods file which updates daily NAV of Mutual Funds from the URL https://www.amfiindia.com/spages/NAVAll.txt
I find that the update is not possible since limited apps have access to internet on Easy OS due to security settings.
I would like to know how to add Libreoffice Calc to that list of apps.

[BarryK]

Hi Barry, Hi everybody. Many thanks Barry for this update. I updated automatically from the precedent version.
I have not tested many things since this very recent update, but I was surprised as i saw the remaining place indicator showing me only 5 Mo and turned to red. I immediately shutdown EasyOs and saved the session.
This was at the first launch after the update. Now the level indicator is turned to green ans shows 8.8 go concerning the free space. My usb key is a new Sandisk which size is 256 go.

The reason for the discepancy is because you are running in RAM, and the memory icon in the tray is only showing free space available in RAM.

Running in RAM does have its downsides, and that is one of them.

If you have a good quality flash drive, you can consider direct writes to the drive. Click on the "save" icon and there is a checkbox to turn it on.

[BarryK]

No internet access for Libreoffice Calc file

I have a Mutual Fund Tracker ods file which updates daily NAV of Mutual Funds from the URL https://www.amfiindia.com/spages/NAVAll.txt
I find that the update is not possible since limited apps have access to internet on Easy OS due to security settings.
I would like to know how to add Libreoffice Calc to that list of apps.

The LibreOFFice suite runs as the root user, so Calc should be unrestricted.

EDIT:
You could try running Calc in Bookworm. Run SFSget and install the bookworm sfs.
That will give you "bookworm" icon on the desktop, click on that.

In the bookworm desktop, click on "pkg" and choose PKGget, then search for "libreoffice-calc"
...I just now tried that, it has 37 dependencies, so a big download.

If you had Internet setup before starting the bookworm container, then it should also be working from the container -- you could start the browser to confirm.

[Jean-Louis CANONNE]

Hi Barry, Hi everybody. Many thanks Barry for this update. I updated automatically from the precedent version.
I have not tested many things since this very recent update, but I was surprised as i saw the remaining place indicator showing me only 5 Mo and turned to red. I immediately shutdown EasyOs and saved the session.
This was at the first launch after the update. Now the level indicator is turned to green ans shows 8.8 go concerning the free space. My usb key is a new Sandisk which size is 256 go.

The reason for the discepancy is because you are running in RAM, and the memory icon in the tray is only showing free space available in RAM.

Running in RAM does have its downsides, and that is one of them.

If you have a good quality flash drive, you can consider direct writes to the drive. Click on the "save" icon and there is a checkbox to turn it on.

Many thanks Barry very useful explanation for me
, I’m understanding now and I don't worry about it anymore.
Best regards

[kagashe]

The LibreOFFice suite runs as the root user, so Calc should be unrestricted.

EDIT:
You could try running Calc in Bookworm. Run SFSget and install the bookworm sfs.
That will give you "bookworm" icon on the desktop, click on that.

In the bookworm desktop, click on "pkg" and choose PKGget, then search for "libreoffice-calc"
...I just now tried that, it has 37 dependencies, so a big download.

If you had Internet setup before starting the bookworm container, then it should also be working from the container -- you could start the browser to confirm.

Installed bookworm in container, installed libreoffice-calc with all dependencies. Getting this error
# soffice
Warning: failed to launch javaldx - java may not function correctly
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libreglo.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[BarryK]

# soffice
Warning: failed to launch javaldx - java may not function correctly
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libreglo.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The way to find what package has that library, is go here:

https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages

...type "libreglo.so" into the second entry box. I just now did that, and it reports the required package is "uno-libs-private"

I just remembered something... I did previously try to install libreoffice in EasyOS Bookworm, and it didn't work, though I think did install all the deps. That was awhile ago, alpha/beta packages of Bookworm. So you might hit the same problem.

[BarryK]

Here is some news, what to expect in the next release of Easy:

"packages-templates copied from woofQ"
https://bkhome.org/news/202307/packages ... woofq.html

"Menu entries for not-yet-installed apps"
https://bkhome.org/news/202307/menu-ent ... -apps.html

[kagashe]

# soffice
Warning: failed to launch javaldx - java may not function correctly
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libreglo.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The way to find what package has that library, is go here:

https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages

...type "libreglo.so" into the second entry box. I just now did that, and it reports the required package is "uno-libs-private"

I just remembered something... I did previously try to install libreoffice in EasyOS Bookworm, and it didn't work, though I think did install all the deps. That was awhile ago, alpha/beta packages of Bookworm. So you might hit the same problem.

uno-libs-private is already installed.

[BarryK]

# soffice
Warning: failed to launch javaldx - java may not function correctly
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libreglo.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The way to find what package has that library, is go here:

https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages

...type "libreglo.so" into the second entry box. I just now did that, and it reports the required package is "uno-libs-private"

I just remembered something... I did previously try to install libreoffice in EasyOS Bookworm, and it didn't work, though I think did install all the deps. That was awhile ago, alpha/beta packages of Bookworm. So you might hit the same problem.

uno-libs-private is already installed.

Is there any libreglo.so.* at /usr/lib or /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu?
If so, create a symlink libreglo.so to it.

[BarryK]

I require Keyboard Switcher applet. To install it I did the following
Installed devx.sfs
rebooted
Downloaded fbxkb-0.4.tgz from sourceforge
Extracted it
Entered the Directory fbxkb-0.4
# ./configure
# make
new2dir make install

Got directory fbxkb-0.4-amd64
dir2pet fbxkb-0.4-amd64
Got fbxkb-0.4-amd64.pet
Installed the pet by clicking on it.

This is what I had done on Puppy 4.0 and it worked.
But it is not working on Easy OS.

On Fossapup I installed fbxkb from Ubuntu repository.

There is no executable fbxkb in my Easy OS frugal install.

Please help.

I haven't had any joy trying to fix this. See blog post:

https://bkhome.org/news/202307/gftp-and ... bumps.html

[kagashe]

Is there any libreglo.so.* at /usr/lib or /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu?
If so, create a symlink libreglo.so to it.

It is at /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libreglo.so

By the way libreglo.so error is not coming now.

# soffice
Warning: failed to launch javaldx - java may not function correctly

But it does not open libreoffice.

Then I installed java, Java-common, jre

Now I don't get any error
# libreoffice

But it is not opening.

[BarryK]

Yeah, I recall, had that same problem, libreoffice wouldn't start.

Well, what's left? ...libreoffice in a flatpak or appimage?

[kagashe]

Yeah, I recall, had that same problem, libreoffice wouldn't start.

Well, what's left? ...libreoffice in a flatpak or appimage?

I would prefer Libreoffice on flatpak on Easy OS 5.4.6 instead but what about installed Libreoffice, I can't remove it. Can both Co exist?

Update
I installed Libreoffice Flatpak and my problem is solved

[kagashe]

I require Keyboard Switcher applet. To install it I did the following
Installed devx.sfs
rebooted
Downloaded fbxkb-0.4.tgz from sourceforge
Extracted it
Entered the Directory fbxkb-0.4
# ./configure
# make
new2dir make install

Got directory fbxkb-0.4-amd64
dir2pet fbxkb-0.4-amd64
Got fbxkb-0.4-amd64.pet
Installed the pet by clicking on it.

This is what I had done on Puppy 4.0 and it worked.
But it is not working on Easy OS.

On Fossapup I installed fbxkb from Ubuntu repository.

There is no executable fbxkb in my Easy OS frugal install.

Please help.

I haven't had any joy trying to fix this. See blog post:

https://bkhome.org/news/202307/gftp-and ... bumps.html

I solved it. I downloaded fbxkb_0.6-2_amd64.deb on Fossapup and brought it on Easy OS and installed it.
Did not know Easy OS could install a .deb file but it did.

[kagashe]

Now I have Keyboard Switcher on my Desktop, My Mutual Fund NAV Tracker is working, I am very happy.
I had to install LibreOffice Flatpak to make Mutual Fund Tracker work.
The only difference between installed Libreoffice and Flatpak package is installed Libreoffice does not have JRE and it it is not found in PKGet otherwise I could install it.

[BarryK]

Version 5.4.7 released, see announcement with links:

https://bkhome.org/news/202307/easyos-k ... eased.html

[bugnaw333]

After upgrade from 5.4.6 to 5.4.7, when I click OBS (new logo icon) it has a problem on desktop and on Multi-media menu:

[bugnaw333]

Also, ETP's Multilingual Spoken Startup Welcome Plus Internet Connection alarm for EasyOS does not appear (note message) on the desktop at start-up only the voice message is ok.

Best regards,
Reynaldo

[ETP]

Hi Reynaldo,
Thanks for your report which I have confirmed. The optional welcome message which uses notify-send, is not working in
5.4.7 as the notification-daemon is not running and does not appear in Pprocess manager.

That daemon is launched by the /usr/share/applications/notification-daemon.desktop file which Barry has modified
in 5.4.7. That revised code fails early on and the "Exec=" line is not executed.

My best guess is that JWM cannot make sense of one of the org.freedesktop entries in the modified version.

I note also that the "Wired connection established" message is also not showing on screen.

The following errors appear in the xerrs.log.

(nm-applet:4466): libnotify-WARNING **: 08:48:56.389: Failed to connect to proxy

(nm-applet:4466): nm-applet-WARNING **: 08:48:56.390: Failed to show notification: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Notifications was not provided by any .service files
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This may be a similar issue which Barry also needs to look at.

[BarryK]

ETP,
Thanks for reporting the cause of the problem.
Yes, 5.4.7 has .desktop files with translations automatically generated by Google Translate.

I was expecting that JWM would be happy with them, but it looks like not. At least, not that one.

I'm on a different computer right now, will get onto tracking down the cause later.

[BarryK]

@bugnaw333 , @ETP
On my main workhorse computer now, and I am very puzzled.

There are scripts that have done automated translation for .desktop files:
https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commit ... 93a3b0515d

It has incorrectly translated /usr/share/applications/notification-daemon.desktop:

This is the "Name=" line, and the "fr" translation generated by the script"

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Name=Notification Daemon
Name[fr]=org.freedesktop.Notifications
Démon de notification

The script uses the Google 'trans' program, repeating it in a terminal, exactly as it is done in the script:

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# trans -b en:fr "Notification Daemon"
Démon de notification
# TR1="$(trans -b en:fr "Notification Daemon")"
# echo "$TR1" | awk '{$1=$1};1'
Démon de notification
# 

...translation is correct. Where has that "org.freedesktop.Notifications" come from?

I see why JWM is unhappy, as "Name[fr]=" parameter has two lines, which is a syntax error.

OK, well, I will run the script and just translate that one .desktop file, see if get the error.

[BarryK]

OK, have understood what has gone wrong. It looks like the translations in these files in woofQ are broken:

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packages-templates/awf/FIXUPHACK
packages-templates/blueman/FIXUPHACK
packages-templates/network-manager-applet/FIXUPHACK
packages-templates/notification-daemon/FIXUPHACK

I have fixed the scripts, will revert the translations and rerun the translation scripts.

[BarryK]

After upgrade from 5.4.6 to 5.4.7, when I click OBS (new logo icon) it has a problem on desktop and on Multi-media menu:

Did you have obs installed before upgrading?

If so, was it a native app installed via pkgget, or a flatpak?

[bugnaw333]

Yes. Native app installed via pkgget.

Re-installing it back, some libraries are missing: