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EasyOS Kirkstone-series version 5.4.6 released

July 06, 2023 — BarryK

Version 5.4.5 was released on June 30:

https://bkhome.org/news/202306/easyos-kirkstone-series-version-545.html

Newcomers are recommended to read the 5.4 announcement:

https://bkhome.org/news/202306/easyos-kirkstone-series-version-54-released.html

Various fixes since 5.4.5, see release notes:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/kirkstone/2023/5.4.6/release-notes.htm

In particular, there is a fix for Flapi, the Flatpak Installer, unable to register at flathub.org. That problem, and fix was posted about here:

https://bkhome.org/news/202307/flapi-fix-if-fail-to-register-with-flathub.html

I was not hitting that "Unacceptable TLS certificate" ...until today. I booted 5.4.6 on my only computer that has the hardware clock set to UTC -- all my other computers have the hardware clock set to local time -- and hey, I have hit the same problem:

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So, I clicked the button to run Qsync:

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And now Flapi works. Yeah, this has to be a bug in the 'flatpak' binary.

Download link:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/kirkstone/2023/5.4.6/

Fast mirror if you live in Europe, courtesy of NLUUG:

https://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/easyos/amd64/releases/kirkstone/2023/

Feedback is welcome in the forum:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=93255#p93255

Have fun!    

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