3rd Party Applications

[Jasper]

bash-5.2.32

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ffmpeg-7.0.2-VoidPup64-x86_64 - requires additional libraries - Libass and Libaom

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ffmpeg-7.0.2-VoidPup64

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libass-0.17.3

libaom-3.8.1

Also, Ninja for building

[mikewalsh]

@Jasper :-

Me, I just use John van Sickle's statically-compiled ffmpeg builds. I do appreciate, however, that not everyone wants enormous ffmpeg binaries containing everything PLUS the kitchen sink.....especially when all those dependencies already exist on the system. What? Duplication?? NEVER.....

They're for folks - like me - who have more RAM + storage than they know what to do with. Though, having said that, I have a copy of the ffmpeg binaries - in both arches - on an external partition, and these, between them, are symlinked into every Pup in the kennels. So there's not AS much over-duplication as you might imagine.....

You're definitely appreciated though, Jasper! We NEED more people like you in the community.....especially when many - like yours truly - have atrocious compiling skills.....

Keep up the good work, mate.

Mike.

[Jasper]

clip2type-example.png

Homepage:

https://github.com/dheera/clip2type

clip2type

If you have encountered any websites that don't let you paste things from the clipboard, e.g.

• Bank websites that don't let you paste routing/account numbers for wire transfers

• Virtual machines that capture Ctrl+V but don't sync the clipboard

• SMS confirmations that use 6 separate text boxes and don't paste the code correctly

• Buggy HTML code editors

• Probably a lot of other things

... this is the solution. It takes the (text) contents of the keyboard, emulates a fake hardware USB keyboard on /dev/uinput and types out whatever is in the clipboard, so that the receiving application doesn't "know" it is being pasted into. It requires suid or sudo to work correctly.

Supports qwerty and dvorak layouts (it is layout dependent since it is emulating hardware keystrokes on /dev/uinput and so it needs to know whether your UI is configured for qwerty or dvorak). If you have some other layout, edit it yourself.

This should work on x11 and wayland, but I have only tested it on wayland. (tested and works on X11 )

Example:

Open up your browser and a terminal.

In the terminal ( if using a qwerty keyboard) enter

clip2type - 100 -k qwerty

Then in your browser just highlight some text.

Finally open up Geany etc and click inside and it should paste the contents you selected ( no CTRL+C nor CTRL+V required).

Should be simple enough to create a script to include in the menu

[Jasper]

Fork of Floorp web browser.

Works in VoidPup64 as it requires Glibc-2.38.

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firedragon-build.png

https://www.mediafire.com/file/5ypjb/fi ... 4.sfs/file

[Jasper]

The default browser in Garuda Linux

firedragon-v11.17.8-1.sfs

https://www.mediafire.com/file/20ga9bh1 ... 1.sfs/file

[Jasper]

firedragon-v11.18.0.1.sfs

https://www.mediafire.com/file/16xjupfg ... 1.sfs/file

[Jasper]

firedragon-v11.18.1-1.sfs

https://www.mediafire.com/file/n1bookem ... 1.sfs/file

[Jasper]

firedragon-v11.19.1-1.sfs

FireDragon is a browser based on the excellent Floorp browser (also called the Vivaldi of Firefox's).

It was customised to have dr460nized-fitting aesthetics (Garuda Linux) as well as many opinionated settings by default.

As this browser was originally a Librewolf fork.

More info:

https://firedragon.garudalinux.org/

[N97]

How about a video player? any pets for void?
I cant seem to get xbps repositories working in terminal.

N97

[Jasper]

In terminal

vpm i vlc

[mikewalsh]

@Jasper :-

Mm. Missing files are becoming a bit of an issue for you, aren't they? Might I make a couple of suggestions?

I found out myself in the past that file-sharing sites are NOT always the best solution. They're fine for 'sharing' a few items, short term, amongst a small group of people.....but they always come with strings attached. Primarily - the most self-defeating, I think - is that time limit. The only way around it is to regularly download individual items so as to prolong their "use-by" date. AND, you end up with the need to have to keep copies of everything locally.....so as not to permanently lose stuff.

When you have a lot of stuff to 'share', unless you can attach items to their posts, the only sensible solution for long-term availability is a cloud storage a/c.....especially for something like a community forum, where most of us want things to remain available, often for years.

There's a lot of 'em out there.....but one of the best I've personally had dealings with is the Texas-based MediaFire. I opened an a/c with them in early 2015 - almost a decade ago - and the very first item I uploaded is still there. They've also been very prompt at sorting out occasional small 'hiccups', with no fuss about it.

No, the service doesn't offer all the bells'n'whistles of most other cloud providers.....but for basic file-sharing, which is all most of us here want, 10 GB on the free a/c works quite well.

There's also Google, Dropbox, Mega.nz, pCloud, RakutenDrive, IceDrive, Degoo, OneDrive......and a ton of others. Some offer more free storage, some less (but more 'features'). But in all cases, there's no danger of 'losing' stuff due to some abitrary time-limit.

It IS worth thinking about, trust me.

Mike.

[Jasper]

Personally, I am not concerned.

I see that Pixachu had tried to create a repository. Bit useless as it fails to show interlinking applications/libraries. Also, missing components from split ie application/development/documentation. I would advise members not to use this.

The applications are built against existing libraries at the time eg OpenSSL.

If additional libraries or new ones are required. I add them to the post.

Nothing stands still.

Installing older applications that require specific libraries may not always work in a newer build.

VoidPup is a rolling release which gives updated components each time. Which is why I like and use it. This includes the DevX.

Have to be careful regarding installation of applications as the 'next' release may break.

VLC is a good example.

[Jasper]

Aah.. maybe I should label PET files for VoidPup64 with the corresponding ISO date in the future.

The application just states 'Void - Current'

[Jasper]

@mikewalsh

What's your agenda?

[N97]

Mine is stick with what works... archive.org has never failed in 9 years.

I did find mpv, and works great on this computer available mid 2023. BUT the void repo is FULL of pkgs with missing stuff or has dependancy hell.
mpv 19Mb... vlc 109Mb. No suitable size/age audio/video edit, so using browser/cloud versions;.. much smaller.

BTW... I notice that smplayer needs quite a few other Qt5 packages not in voidpup64. mpv alone is ninja-like.

@jasper
IIRC sfs only, pet package manager defunct in this distro.

Regards
N97

[peebee]

IIRC sfs only, pet package manager defunct in this distro.

No - still there - but is not integrated with vpm so should be used with care - fine for small apps with no new dependencies.....

[N97]

I added UExtract 4.14 as a pet... i had previously used vpm to add zstd 1.5.6.
Everything working ok.