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EasyOS Daedalus-series version 6.5.5 released

January 16, 2025 — BarryK

If you are new to EasyOS, I recommend that you read the version 6.5 release announcement for further information:

To find out what has changed since 6.5, read the 6.5.5 release notes:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/daedalus/2025/6.5.5/release-notes.htm

Some introductory notes are here:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/daedalus/2025/6.5.5/readme.htm

Download 6.5.5:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/daedalus/2025/6.5.5/

Feedback is welcome at the forum:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=140297#p140297

Have fun!   

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Easy Daedalus package version bumps

January 16, 2025 — BarryK

I am just about to release Easy Daedalus 6.5.5 and have bumped some package versions:

chromium     131.0.6778.204  131.0.6778.264
dnsmasq      2.89            2.90
libsystemd0  252.31          252.33
pup-tools    20241019        20250115

The first three are DEBs, the last is a PET package.    

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Fix description field in pkg db

January 15, 2025 — BarryK

Forum member Caramel discovered the problem, when using PKGget:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=13626

The script /usr/local/petget/0setup calls /usr/local/petget/debdb2pupdb-nim to convert the Debian package database to "Puppy format". The problem that Caramel discovered is that the description field of this package contained " characters:

libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0_1.22.0-4|libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0|1.22.0-4||BuildingBlock\
|2387K|pool/DEBIAN/main/g/gst-plugins-bad1.0|libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0_1.22.0-4+deb12u5_amd64.deb\
|+libc6&ge2.29,+libdrm2&ge2.3.1,+libglib2.0-0&ge2.68,+libgstreamer-gl1.0-0&ge1.22.0,+libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0&ge1.22.0,+libgstreamer1.0-0&ge1.22.0,+libnice10&ge0.1.21,+libva-drm2&ge1.8,+libva2&ge2.10.0,+libvulkan1&ge1.2.131.2,+libwayland-client0&ge1.20.0,+libxcb1,+libxkbcommon-x11-0&ge0.5.0,+libxkbcommon0&ge0.5.0\
|GStreamer libraries from the "bad" set|devuan|daedalus|8ad1b5148b4fc676523250df74fb4cae||

The previous debdb2pupdb was written in Bacon and it had better filtering of the description field.

I have edited debdb2pupdb.nim in the 'pup-tools' package, to filter out all characters not strictly required for the description. See commit:

https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commit/91c16fb70865188c91b84ce82a38a1d7aa081041   

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Easy Daedalus Bluetooth fix

January 15, 2025 — BarryK

Forum member tallboy reported that bluetooth does not work in Easy Daedalus. I have confirmed this, trying to use BluePup to pair with a blutooth loudspeaker.

There is something wrong with the Debian bluez package. I don't know what, and have implemented a hack fix, overwriting with the 'bluez5' packages from Easy Kirstone. See commits:

https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commit/afe75379b3f6f1f6d14bb3fffe44b1bd9a30f9c9

https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commit/e73f67f9a357ae8105d94fffccb24fe007538764

Another minor fix, for /usr/lib/lsb:

https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commit/499e7899890ab1f856f16ef3b7d64abafa09c6a8    

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EasyOS 6.5.4.2 released

January 12, 2025 — BarryK

Scarthgap:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/scarthgap/2025/6.5.4.2/

Daedalus:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/daedalus/2025/6.5.4.2/   

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Partial fix for JWM blurry wallpaper

January 12, 2025 — BarryK

The problem was reported by SteveS:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=13561

I do get this blurry-wallpaper problem at shutdown, when a window asks whether you want to save the session. That happens because ROX-Filer has exited and fallback is to the wallpaper provided by JWM. I have fixed that, so I get nice JWM wallpaper at shutdown:

https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commit/25282aa1c898c876652d59f3cd6ef2a5c31aacdf

I don't get the blurry wallpaper in icon-free-desktop mode, but that is because my screen is 1920x1080, and the wallaper is the same size. JWM doesn't have to scale it down, as in SteveS' case.

So, a partial fix, only at shutdown and when JWM doesn't have to scale the image down.

This is really a bug in JWM, and should be reported to Joe.    

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PKGget install and uninstall fixes

January 12, 2025 — BarryK

Thanks to the guys who report issues, with both Scarthgap and Daedalus.

Fixed an install bug with PKGget, see commit:

https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commit/e4a03c54a714f02ddf5a33c1bdf27fbe41927747

More serious, PKGget uninstall was broken. It was not completely uninstalling, such as leaving desktop icon behind. See commit:

https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commit/989562f78295b0282af56832466719fc053cd414

I mentioned in Daedalus 6.5.4.1 release, that the orange-ball Avidemux menu entry should not be there. Fixed:

https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commit/7621aef334e482bbe45b87d87c20915eebd1d04d    

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EasyOS Daedalus-series version 6.5.4.1 released

January 11, 2025 — BarryK

Version 6.5.4 was released a few days ago:

Two urgent fixes. Busybox was too old, updated to version 1.36.1. See forum discussion here. Also, appimages do not work running non-root; requires suid bit set on /usr/bin/fusermount

Download:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/daedalus/2025/6.5.4.1/

Feedback welcome at the forum:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=139858#p139858

Note, the invalid menu entry for Avidemux (Multimedia category) not yet fixed.   

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