Barrys News — Posts tagged "easy"

It is a convenience to run the 'apt' or 'apt-get' utilities in a terminal, to perform various package-management functions. One of those conveniences is to specify multiple packages to be installed.

EasyOS has a package management system that is different from Debian. PKGget, the EasyOS GUI program, can, in the case of Easy Daedalus, install from the Devuan/Debian package respositories. However, the package database format is different from that of Devuan/Debian, which means that the 'apt' utility won't work.

There are some Puppy distros that attempt to get 'apt' to work with the Puppy Package Manager (PPM), but it is a hack.

Another approach is to write a replacement for 'apt', that is just a wrapper for PKGget. I have got the ball rolling, to show how this works. There is a new directory, /usr/local/neo-apt, for now with a simple 'apt' script that only implements the "install" commandline option:

What it does is call PKGget for each of the packages specified on the commandline. So for the first one, PKGget will run:

Which is a good thing, to have the GUI present you with all the required dependencies, rather than just blindly going ahead and installing a gazillion packages.

This is just a start; we could add "search", "update", "list", etc.

Note, this NeoAPT will work in Easy Scarthgap also. It has nothing to do with Debian package DBs, it is just a wrapper for PKGget.

Here are the github commits:

https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commit/215a7417e87e8d4d0ce9593c9ca409715976f1de

https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commit/5f6ac2782d43cbd92d88d1bf6b0fd72d044cf2a4

https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commit/ea6241621a38cd9259b138865b9d3d4bbff91a19

As apt and related packages do not work in Easy Daedalus, have blacklisted them:

https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commit/5a08374e6fa9d437ff925f34c9fc8c941068a2ff

Changing the subject, I have added some 'gvfs' packages to Easy Daedalus, as it seems needed by some filemanagers:

https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commit/f11ede856b3405d580f0980403b92696cca2ec85

EDIT 2025-03-17:
Decided to change the name, from NeoAPT to EasyAPT.

Tags: easy

Kernel 6.12.19 compiled for Daedalus with AVS enabled

March 16, 2025 — BarryK

I have previously compiled the 6.12.x kernel in Easy Daedalus, but had problems with Xe video and AVS audio drivers, so turned them off:

Linux kernel 6.12.12 configured without AVS and Xe — February 03, 2025

Decided to have another go, compiled 6.12.19 with AVS enabled, and sub-category "Intel AVS machine drivers" all enabled as modules. The failed audio had previously only occurred on my Acer Aspire 1; this time, audio works.

Interesting, running "dmesg", although 'snd_soc_avs.ko' has loaded, it looks like the legacy audio driver has grabbed the audio first.

With Easy Scarthgap and Daedalus, I reverted to the 6.6.x kernel, specifically 6.6.67, and that's what is used in the latest releases. But now, for Easy Daedalus, plan to go back to using the 6.12.x kernel. Maybe Scarthgap also.

Tags: easy

EasyOS Daedalus-series version 6.6.4 released

March 11, 2025 — BarryK

Version 6.6.3 was released on February 19:

EasyOS Daedalus-series version 6.6.3 released — February 19, 2025

Highlights of 6.6.4, since 6.6.3:

Chromium bumped to 134.0.6998.35
Limine Installer efibootmgr usage fix — March 09, 2025
Fix browser menu entry disappear when update — March 02, 2025
Fix orange-ball install as root — March 01, 2025
Fix resize partition in NVME drive — February 24, 2025

Release notes:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/daedalus/2025/6.6.4/release-notes.htm

Getting started notes:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/daedalus/2025/6.6.4/readme.htm

Download:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/daedalus/2025/6.6.4/readme.htm

Feedback welcome at the forum:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=144474#p144474

Tags: easy

Limine Installer efibootmgr usage fix

March 09, 2025 — BarryK

Problem and fix reported by Caramel:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=13986

Fix commited:

https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commit/b6659b50045762a59c4aefef7dc413bc418b378c

Tags: easy

Fix browser menu entry disappear when update

March 02, 2025 — BarryK

The menu in EasyOS that I'm running right now:

I have Opera and Chrome installed. If click the "Download latest ..." from the menu, for example Opera, update occurs; however, the "Opera web browser" entry disappears. Same thing will happen with the others. Now fixed.

The problem was reported in the forum for Vivaldi:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=13874

Tags: easy